Future Quote by Craig David

I am interested in my music lasting only while I'm alive. I'm not writing for the future.

— Sonny Rollins

I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible, killer songs…

— Dan Hill

The only way to have longevity is to have good songs.

— Brett Young

Ultimately, what I want is for my songs to outlive me: I want my songs to keep being played even after I'm gone.

— Mary Gauthier

I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have.

— Martina McBride

It's important to refresh the way of thinking and doing things musically. You can get so stuck in what you've done in the past…

— Philip Bailey

If you're a songwriter, you want to write a song like "Oh Yeah" that radically shifts everything. You can definitely retire on that song.…

— Margaret Cho

As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're…

— Gloria Estefan

I've written 90 percent of the songs in my career, on all my albums.

— Toby Keith

Songs kind of live in a timeless place for me, and since I make records I dunno, about every two-and-a-half to three years or…

— Regina Spektor

I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way, but I feel like maybe my songs were,…

— Ellie Goulding

My music has been a hit all through my career since 1973.

— Rajesh Roshan