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Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory. -- Ray Charles
I have a heart problem, so I have to simplify my life and be content with memories and friends and music. -- Gian Carlo Menotti
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. -- Thomas Beecham
Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it. -- Stevie Wonder
Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker. -- Todd Haynes
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. -- Christina Perri
My first memories of music were country music and Ronnie Milsap. Where I grew up, it was what you listened to. And anything else, you were somewhat out of place. -- Luke Bryan
I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I was at the shows for those, so they bring back memories. -- Lisa Marie Presley
My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand. -- Frederick Reines
I played music and sang from my earliest memories. The first pictures of me show me wandering around with a guitar that was larger than I was, and it became almost second nature to me. -- Dwight Yoakam
Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person's earth lives. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
People in day-to-day life tend to skim the surface of things and be polite and careful, and that's not the language I speak. I like talking about feelings, fears and memories, anguish and joy, and I find it in music. -- Shirley Manson
When I was little and I was introduced to Led Zeppelin, I didn't know what a zeppelin was or who Zeppelin was or what the machine was. The real meaning is whatever feelings and memories you attach to the music. -- Kyp Malone
My house was full of music. My main memories are of the record player at home: it was all Beatles and Rolling Stones, and we danced around the living room; that started me off on instruments, and I've done nothing else ever since. -- Steven Price
Both of my books, 'Love Is a Mix Tape' and 'Talking to Girls About Duran Duran,' are about how music gets tangled up with all our other emotional memories. Since I'm an obsessive music fan, I'm always seeking out new sonic thrills. -- Rob Sheffield
I don't feel a real need to specify the meaning of something. When I was little and I was introduced to Led Zeppelin, I didn't know what a zeppelin was or who Zeppelin was or what the machine was. The real meaning is whatever feelings and memories you attach to the music. -- Kyp Malone
My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So he'd listen to a lot of music and the songs that he'd learn for the band were more from the male artists. So my earliest country memories were Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck even. -- Martina McBride
I have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don't think I'd have got where I am today without all that experience. So my advice to young singers is to either join your school or church's choir or find one in your local area. Choral music at any level teaches you so much about musicianship and blending your voice. -- Katherine Jenkins
When I was little I went to a Baptist Church with my grandmother. My earliest memories were of her falling out in the middle of the floor and they had to cover her with a white sheet. Every time we went to church it was scary. The music would start playing, and then everybody would start running and shouting and hollering and screaming. -- Sherri Shepherd
I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonham died and I never was able to. For me, music is such a huge part of my life, and I use songs like memory triggers. So a lot of my memories of being a kid and growing up are associated with different songs. -- Eddie McClintock
Music at its essence is what gives us memories. -- Stevie Wonder
Music is the way our memories sing to us across time. -- Lance Morrow
My earliest memories of country music are the Grand Ole Opry. -- Lionel Richie
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories. -- Oscar Wilde
It is extraordinary how music sends one back into memories of the past ... -- George Sand
Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity. -- Arundhati Roy
Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
The reactions music evokes are not feelings, but they are the images, memories of feelings. -- Paul Hindemith
I had funny memories, too, but the music was more important to me than anything else. -- Lita Ford
Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past. -- Olga Kurylenko
Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me. -- Isabel Allende
We love music for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Well then, music take me on that wonderful journey of my lost memories, and never take me back to reality. -- Seth Hawkins
If i were to lose my memories, I would rely on music. There is so much of my story embedded in each. -- Jason Mraz
I've always been kind of surrounded by music my whole life, so my earliest memories of it were just hearing it in the house. -- Jillian Hervey
Truth only needs to be for once spoken out; and there's such music in her, such strange rhythm, as makes men's memories her joyous slaves. -- James Russell Lowell
Passione' is a selection of the music moments that have accompanied my youth; a collection of cherished memories, of moments, of fleeting emotions, of sleepless nights. -- Andrea Bocelli
'Passione' is a selection of the music moments that have accompanied my youth; a collection of cherished memories, of moments, of fleeting emotions, of sleepless nights. -- Andrea Bocelli
My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely. -- Nas
Music is a place to take refuge. It's a sanctuary from mediocrity and boredom. It's innocent and it's a place you can lose yourself in thoughts, memories and intricacies. -- Lisa Gerrard

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