Sam Smith Quotes

Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his 'death,' whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!

If somebody wants to sing my songs after I'm gone, nobody will be happier than my dead body.

I think all creative people are operating from the fear that, of the best of what they did, will anybody remember it? Will anybody tell stories about them? Will anybody keep those pictures on the mantle long after they are gone? It's why people write stories. It's peoples' grave markers.

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

If what you create does not outlive you, then you have failed.

The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.

Lies here food for the worms yet the work shall not be lost.

It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.

How many other people get a chance to be remembered forever? And that's what I really want. I want to be remembered forever.

My ultimate goal is to live forever, but the only way to live forever is to create and you always want to be there for your kid.

We all go to our grave thinking that we will never be forgotten, and we are forgotten ten minutes later.

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

The only greatness for man is immortality.

Immortality is a by-product of good work.

Oh, I'll be forgotten too, don't worry.

I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.

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

Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.

I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.

I'm interested in designing for posterity.

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

I'm never looking at life in terms of legacy.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.