If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything. Songs will outlast the artist and they will go on for ever if they are good.
Interpretation
Great songs resonate with deep emotion and meaning, transcending time and the artist's existence.
This quote by Elton John emphasizes the enduring power of music and songwriting. He suggests that songs imbued with strong emotion and significant meaning possess the ability to connect with listeners across generations, allowing them to remain relevant long after the original artist has gone. The essence of a well-crafted song can unlock profound experiences and memories, underscoring the notion that art, especially music, has a timeless quality that can influence and inspire people eternally.
In practice
Using this quote during a speech at a music awards ceremony to highlight the importance of songwriting.
I don't want to be married. I'm very happy with a civil partnership. If gay people want to get married, or get together, they should have a civil partnership. The word 'marriage,' I think, puts a lot of people off. You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.
I just wish more of my fellow queers would come out sometimes. It's nice out here, you know?
At heart I've always been a music fan. That part of me has never changed since I was a little kid, sitting in a room watching a record go round, looking at the colour of the labels.
I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.
So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do_x000D_ _x000D_ You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue_x000D_ _x000D_ Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean_x000D_ _x000D_ Yours are the sweetest eyes, I've ever seen.
Don't be afraid to let her into your heart and when your down, don't try to carry the whole world on your shoulders.
I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'
I don't believe that clothes can start a revolution, but I do believe that fashion is often a manifestation of a sociological or political climate.
The job of the writer is to look at where he is now and make some sort of emotional sense of it, not only for that moment but for years to come.
The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it’s definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.
There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.
Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
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