When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

What will I be doing in 20 years time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

I certainly don't have any aspirations to live to 70. It would be so boring. I will be dead and gone long before that. I won't be here... as far as I'm concerned, I've lived a full life and if I'm dead tomorrow, I don't give a damn. I've lived. I really have done it all.

I could still be forgotten when I'm dead. I don't really care what happens when I'm dead.

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.