Immortalize Quotes

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost.

When you make a great record, it's around forever.

Look, everyone who ever comes to Hollywood, you hope to do something that people will remember you for.

Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth the reading, or do things worth the writing.

Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

What’s written remains, though a writer is buried beneath the ground.

I'd like to think I've left something in the world. Without in any way trying to be morbid, but life is very short, and I'd like to think I'd leave some body of work that would inspire other musicians long after I've gone.

I really want to leave something behind that means something when I'm no longer here.

One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide and made my pains his prey. Vain man (said she) that dost in vain assay A mortal thing so to immortalise; For I myself shall like to this decay, And eke my name be wipèd out likewise. Not so (quod I); let baser things devise To die in dust, but you shall live by fame; My verse your virtues rare shall eternise, And in the heavens write your glorious name: Where, when as Death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew.

Never forget

Sometimes, something special doesn't live forever. But it can always be forever as long as the fans keep it going.

Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

When I die, just keep playing the records.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

To spend life for something which outlasts it.

Prince had always told us he just wanted to get through this thing called life. But now that his own physical life has ended, his artistic life will continue.

We just want to be remembered before something is set in stone.

Steve always said that he didn't care if anyone remembered him, as long as they remembered his message.

I want to build a legacy.

I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.

How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?

The things that I leave creatively are going to stay here long past me. That's the reason why the album is called '4Eva Is a Mighty Long Time.'