Music Endurance Quotes

You see so many musicians come and go. For me, it's really about the longevity in the music industry. It's not all about having a lot of hit records at one time.

I like to make songs that are gonna be here for a long time, not for five months that they play on the radio.

I can't stand too long of a record.

The poetry of country music will survive.

Led Zeppelin isn't done yet, quite clearly, because every year since 1968 there's been new fans.

I was never able to get through Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. I've never been able to make it through. And I love the Smashing Pumpkins, they're one of my favorite bands ever, but I've never been able to listen to the whole thing all the way through.

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.

And the music, as far as a type of music, it's still pretty viable.

I don't want my music to be of its time; I want it to be timeless.

I think the music that I'm writing and the stuff I'm going to do as I age will age.

Honestly speaking, I am very hardcore when it comes to my music because at the end of the day the song that I am creating will remain forever.

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.

We went in and recorded exactly where we were at that point in time. I think because of the quality of musicianship of the band has given it the longevity. I thought the music would endure, I didn't think I would ... I always thought I'd be dead by 30, then dead by 40 and on and on. Now I'm 55 so I didn't even die at 50.

I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos.

Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs.

You might be able to get a certain sound, and in the studio you certainly look at things under a microscope a lot more. You might hear more warmth out of a thicker string gauge. But in the practical world, like with us, we're playing An Evening With... so it's three hours of music, and our music is pretty challenging as far as the technical aspect. And I found after awhile that I was killing myself.

Some records are timeless, and some absolutely sound of their day.

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.