Years Quotes

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

I've read some amazingly derogatory things about me over the years and I've sat there and thought: if you replaced 'ginger' with 'black' or even 'Asian,' you'd be up in front of a judge.

We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?

It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.

Two thousand years of history Black History could not be wiped away so easily.

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

I knew Bob Dylan was searching for the truth and had been for years. And anyone who Really wants the truth ends up at Jesus.

When I first moved to New York I wanted to be a dancer, I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

You can be sure that over the next 10 years, you'll see something that you did not think was possible.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

Let's call them years of a friendly misalliance.

Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watch-tower on the lookout for incidents that may excite the imagination - music, a sunset, may give image to an idea.

How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is that they have become, in all quarters of the world, so deeply impressed on the minds of men; but it is worthy of remark that a belief constantly inculcated during the early years of life, while the brain is impressionable, appears to acquire almost the nature of an instinct; and the very essence of an instinct is that it is followed independently of reason.

I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.

Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.