Quotes About Recollection

I have about a dozen cassettes lying about which I use in random order. Very often, I pick up a cassette to dictate a letter, and I find my voice coming back at me with the lines of plays three years old.

One of my random skills is I have a very strong memory for dialogue and moments, and I don't know why.

That's always a funny thing, when people think they're known for every little thing they ever did, and they're really not.

The idea is every time I go to a show, that night or the next morning I write it down in the gig log. Sometimes they're very scant, sometimes they're very long.

I recognize them for what they were. 'DeDe Dinah,' 'Ginger Bread,' come on. They're fun things. They're middle of the road. It wasn't really rock and roll. I don't know what it was, but it was something accepted and bought, and people still like them. When I reminiscence on stage, people respond. They really like those songs.

It sure is a nice feeling to know that people will remember you after you're gone, that you'll manage to be a little bit of history.

It's always best if you can leave with a good memory.

When I look back to my childhood, many concrete scenes come to my mind, good ones and bad ones.

I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing.

I don't remember a lot of the good times from my days with the Truckers.

Fortunately, I have forgotten most of the things that have happened to me. Fortunately, the mind has a limited capacity for remembering. It would be horrible if I remembered the details of a hundred and eighty thousand years—the details of four thousand lifetimes that I have lived since the first great atomic war.

Everything that I have known You'll write to me to remind Me of, and likewise I shall do The whole past I'll recount to you

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them to.

You have no idea what a charming memory you are to me.

La vida no es la vida que uno vivió, sino la que uno recuerda y cómo recuerda para contarla

What is memory but another narrative form?

I remember virtually everything about every loss. And the wins are hardly memorable.

You'll remember every damn loss. But the wins? You don't necessarily remember.

I often sit back and think, I wish I'd done that, and find out later that I already have.

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

I believe that without memories there is no life, and that our memories should be of happy times.

People see things differently and remember things differently. It's why if somebody robs a liquor store and there are four witnesses they'll often disagree.

It's a weakness of mine to forget what it is I've just been talking about so that when people make witty allusions to it, I stare at them open-mouthed, not knowing what they're talking about.