Legacy Quotes

Ziggy, when you go up bring me up and when you go down don't let me down.

George Jones will always be one of the most amazing singers who ever lived. He was a true Country Music legend who made music very personal to the listener - I think more than anyone else. He will be dearly missed, but always remembered.

Icon. What is an icon? When someone is iconic it means they have established a certain kind of legacy possibly, and I think it does come with time. It's something in the arts, I feel. Maybe not, maybe it doesn't have to be in the arts exactly. I'm not really sure. But I don't think you are born an icon.

When I'm gone I'll be remembered as the workin' man who put his point across with a right hand full of knuckles.

I'd love to be a memorable figure in the history of entertainment in some sexual, comic, tragic way. I'd like to leave the impression that Marilyn Monroe did, to be able to arouse so many different feelings in people.

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

I would like to be remembered as a man who brought an innovation to popular singing.

I sacrifice in my love life and my social life, but those things will be there in three or four years. This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.

If I can do just one tenth of the good Michael Jackson did for others, I can really make a difference in this world.

Do something worth remembering.

My new year's resolution: Never be afraid to be kicked in the teeth. Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.

Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.

I feel that if I can show my demise artistically to the public, I can somehow cure my own legend.

Everyday create your history, every path you take you're leaving your legacy.

Love is the human family's most precious legacy. Its richest bequest. Its golden inheritance.

My goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

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

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song.