Legacy Maintenance Quotes

When you get to the 35-year mark in your career, you make albums for your fans to love you more, so they don't forget about you.

I'm so excited to be carrying on in Dad's footsteps and making sure that everything he worked so hard for continues for the generations to come.

I don't think about my legacy, if indeed, I have one.

I have a legacy which I carry from my media career. That is why you will find that everybody will have an opinion about me.

Oh, you know, your legacy's all you're gonna be remembered by.

There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.

Rio will have to look after the legacy of infrastructure. But it's unclear who will run the sports centres after the Olympics.

I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.

I don't ever want it to be about me. A friend of mine told me, 'The difference between fame and notoriety is fame is when people know you, and notoriety is when people know your work.' The first one is not respectable, but the second one is, because that leaves a legacy.

The first 45 or 50 years of the regional theater movement, all these folks, they built these theaters. The job of the next generation is to maintain them.

When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it's a pretty honorable position to be in.

I'm attending to my legacy, making sure that it travels the universe in the best shape I can get it into. For as long as I'm alive, I'll still be its interpreter.

I would rather be respected than elected.