There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.
When I die, they'll bury the blues with me. But the blues will never die.
I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.
I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.
A classic song is timeless. You'll never outlive a classic song. I'll never put The Beatles 'In My Life' on one day and say, 'That doesnt move me any more.'
Music is fragile: people die, and it's forgotten.
The best music of any era lasts well, I think.
Good music shouldn't have a shelf life.
You look back at people like Elvis and The Beatles and still get their music because it's timeless. That's what I want.
Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember me.
I always wanted to work with Michael Jackson. His music will live forever and with technology nowadays... maybe I could.
I want to write music that will outlive me.
Call it whatever you want, whether it's hip-hop or cult music or pop music, but to me, it's all pretty disposable. I don't think that the music of Nikki Minaj or Justin Beiber is going to be played on the radio twenty-five years from now.
No one told Miles Davis or BB King to pack it in. John Lee Hooker played literally up to the day he died. Why should pop musicians be any different?
I feel like my peers now are artists like Madonna and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Prince. These are people who were able to take their careers beyond the normal here-today-gone-tomorrow life span.
I'm not worried about no charts or how long it's been out. Our records never go away.
Music is timeless, so I want to give people shows they'll never forget so that I can do this forever.
Every band wants to be have a song that is that big, that will pretty much live on forever. I don't know too many new bands that will have a 'Free Bird' that will be around 30 years later. It's become a national anthem of sorts.
If you're a music fan, you think these artists will be here forever, but you should enjoy them while they're here, because you never know what will happen.
It feels so good to be amongst some of the biggest legends in music - it feels quite surreal.
