You never write a theme for a movie thinking, 'This will live forever.'
To be involved with movies that become kind of cult classics... I've been very fortunate. 'The Warriors' is certainly a cult classic, and 'Xanadu' is, to a certain degree, a cult classic as well.
Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic.
In fad standard time, a day is a month, and a fad that lasts two months is a classic.
I agree cars become classic with age and you never know which ones are going to be in vogue.
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
I don't think you can ever remake a classic.
And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up.
We've been called the soundtrack of people's lives. There have been lots of downs, of course but mostly ups. That EW&F is still clicking at least twenty years on and has a life of its own, that the songs have stayed alive - we're like a good book that people go back to.
There's something cool about being a stealth classic.
Negative books can be bestsellers, but seldom classics.
The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic.
One of the reasons we had our reunion tours in the '90s was the unexpectedness of how the music had gone, that these songs we'd recorded should have somehow become timeless classics.
Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.
One thing I'm big on is believing in giving an album time. I'll say you'll have to give an album three years before you can call it a classic. If you can't listen to it three years later then it's not really a classic.
Not everybody has things that become classics.
If you talking 'bout classics, do my name get brought up?
A classic is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion.
Whenever we play new material, eventually some of the songs become classics themselves. They can't become that unless you play them. Any new song is not going to go down as well as some of the old stuff, because obviously the old stuff the fans know inside out.
The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
