The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The word 'retirement' doesn't really sit well with me. There comes a time when you reach a position in society or culture where people will not let you retire. You can say, 'Alright, I'm going to hang up my guitar,' but people will still not let you retire.
I have two main reasons for retiring. The first is I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past. That has been very, very frustrating to me throughout this past year. The second one is realizing my health, along with my family, is the most important thing in the world.
People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.
I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and I hope I never have to do that.
I just don't see myself as retiring. As long as I'm healthy and can play the drums, that's what I'm going to do because that's the most fun thing that I know how to do.
I wouldn't know what to do retiring. So I have no plans to retire.
To retire is to begin to die.
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
When you do something that you like, and you think you can keep doing it, you don't think about retiring.
I have no plans to retire. It's the perfect combination of work and play that keeps you young. If I quit work it would be the beginning of the end for me.