Adam Granduciel Quotes

We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.

You look back at people like Elvis and The Beatles and still get their music because it's timeless. That's what I want.

The best music of any era lasts well, I think.

I want to make music that stands the test of time.

The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it.

I want to make sure that I make music that lasts. I've been experimenting. I've been writing.

It's hard to believe the life that 'Someone Like You' has taken on. It's proof that people hunger for great songs - and they are open to different interpretations of songs they love.

People in England were coming up to me, saying, My mother and father turned me on to your music. This happened to me 20 years ago. When I was 40 they were saying that.

Prince is gone. But the music will go on.

I don't want to make music that is hot now; I want to make music that is hot forever.

I want to create songs that will last across time.

I always wanted to be involved with music that would stand the test of time, being on one of those definitive things that you have to have listened to at some point.

The object is to make beautiful music for people to have forever. Music that stays - not just becomes a ringtone. Longevity.

I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.

Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've done - it's definitely a blessing.

Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember me.

I want to write music that will outlive me.

I understand what songs like 'Mr Brightside' mean to people. They will last forever.

Metallica is going to be one of those bands you look back on in the year 2008, that people will still listen to the way I still listen to Zeppelin and Sabbath albums.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to see your music going from generation to generation.

Late 20th century music was a really important thing. It changed the world, and I'm part of that, and now I'm part of the museum that celebrates that.

I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time.

A lot has been written and said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his greatness is just to go back and play some of the old records. Time has a way of being very unkind to old records, but Elvis' keep getting better and better.

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

Music is timeless, so I want to give people shows they'll never forget so that I can do this forever.