Quotes About Past

Learn from the past, prepare for the future, live in the present.

It's easy to carry the past as a burden instead of a school. It's easy to let it overwhelm you instead of educate you.

The past was "built", the present is "assembled" & the future - "programmed"!

If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

This is what I have come to know: Our past is never passed and there is no such thing as moving on. But there is this telling and there is such a thing as passing through.

When we can return to the roads of our past and see nothing but the beautiful view, then we've truly moved on.

What's past is prologue, and the world awaits.

The setting sun, and the music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in rememberance more than long things past.

Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.

I can't tell my future, so I'm going to tell my past.

The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity.

I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.

Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worth of being saved.

In every heart there is a room, A sanctuary safe and strong, To heal the wounds from lovers past, Until a new one comes along

It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.

I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine.

After that I didn't listen to music as much because '70s music just wasn't... I remember all the songs, but it wasn't because I was into them, you know what I mean?

It's satisfying to put out new music. And I think that's the context in which I'm comfortable revisiting things from the past.

The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

An authentic updating of sacred music can take place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian chant and of sacred polyphony.

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.

Introspection is always retrospection

A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present.