Peabo Bryson Quotes

My songs are a time stamp for a lot of people's lives.

Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life.

Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.

I feel like, when we are young, especially, while we are experiencing so many 'firsts,' when songs move us, we recall exactly where we were when we heard them.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.

For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.

The way I look at it, they're all part of my musical diary, and I can listen to any one of them and it will bring up memories of what was going on at that time.

Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.

To me, they are equally important, as they represent a certain period in my life and times. With that in mind, it really is impossible to pick favorites.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

My albums really are like scrapbooks to me.

I can remember what I ate in the most important moments in my life.

A few things I've noticed about myself as a listener, and the music that I relate to and the music that's continued to mean something to me since I was a little kid or a teenager, is that they're songs that tell stories and songs that come from a place of experience.

For me, music is a magical life force that has the ability to make me cry, pick me up, and take me back in time.

I associate times with certain music. It still is that for me. It's telling the story of our lives.

The thing for me though, is that songs are good depending on the memories I have with them.

Most of the bands that I really hold in my heart - you don't think about them as bands; they're just the soundtrack of your life.

A song marks an occasion in my life and that's how I live my life, by songs.

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

Every one of those old songs like "What's My Age Again?" and "All the Small Things" is like a tattoo or a scrapbook or an old photograph. There are just songs that define certain moments in your life. Everyone has a song that got them through a bad breakup or they put on and it made them feel like they wanted to go out and kick the world's ass with their friends on a weekend. Those songs still feel like that to me.

Certain songs bring me back to certain places I've been in my life. So definitely, I listen to my stuff.

Songs, especially lyrics, have always been really important to me.

It's so hard to listen to an album you created and without remembering where you were when you wrote it or referencing the the recording experience.

I definitely associate songs with the places that I've been.

I love the Seekers, they're part of me, and always will be.