Quotes About Memory

Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory.

You," I said, "are sweet music in a distant room.

The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.

Music is a soundtrack for your life. You hear some tune and you just get swept right back to that point in your life.

Once the music gets in you, it doesn't leave you.

Music revives the recollections it would appease.

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

Yes, my first memory of singing, in general, was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I was ever connected to.

Nothing recalls the past like music.

The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.

The music itself, I suppose, is the thing that will survive in my memory, happily.

It's one that still happens, actually... forgetting a part of a difficult piece. Usually, the chances of it happening are directly proportional to how quiet and attentive the audience is.

Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.

Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.

Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember hearing She Loves You in August 1963.

We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.

It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations.

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.