Enduring Artistry Quotes

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.

I like to make songs that are gonna be here for a long time, not for five months that they play on the radio.

My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.

No-one will ever sound as good as Judy Garland as far as I am concerned.

I want to create songs that will last across time.

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything. Songs will outlast the artist and they will go on for ever if they are good.

Ultimately, what I want is for my songs to outlive me: I want my songs to keep being played even after I'm gone.

I'm really into the 'classic' thing - the craft of writing something that will last, that won't die by next year.

Ghazals can never die; they will come back.

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

You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.