Mick Foley Quotes

I've got a good memory. Sometimes it's a curse. I remember what the light was like in the room the first time I heard Van Morrison's 'Moondance.'

When I sing, I always relive a part of my life.

Music is just a huge part of my life. It affects moods. I've always found it insane how you can hear one song, and it takes you back to a specific, specific moment in your life, and you remember it vividly like it was yesterday.

Every single song that I've listened to is in my memory forever.

We kind of look at music as something very natural in people's lives. I mean, most of us can relate to music in some sort of shape and form, and if you think about it, most of us remember the first time we kissed someone, what kind of music was playing or the song that was playing on our friend's birthday.

Music makes time fall away like almost nothing else. You hear a song from another moment of your life, and it really is like you're still there.

I have a great memory. And actually, I remember Russia in some ways better than I remember Queens.

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

I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.

When I'm on family road trips, there is always Ranchera playing.

I remembered their songs but I had never owned a Beatles album.

American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.

The first time I heard The Beatles, I cried. It was 'Let it Be'.

'Tattoos' reminds me of where I'm from, and some of the stuff I did when I was growing up. That was one of the things that was appealing about the song when I heard it the first time.

I can remember exactly where I was when I saw 'The Matrix' for the first time.

I knew all this Beatles music. I knew the songs phonetically. It was like my whole experience of that music was out of focus, and somebody put the perfect glasses on me, and all of a sudden I could see everything.

Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.

In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years.

I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. The first time I listened to jazz, he gave me a Thelonious Monk record. It was so different from anything I had ever heard. It took me a while to understand it, and I liked that. I liked the fact that it wasn't immediately palatable.

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

Songs go through cycles for me. And sometimes I lose my passion for some of them.

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 think about me and my dad taking a road trip from Phoenix to Nashville when I was 19. He's no longer here with me, but I still drive that same 1994 Chevy truck. I never have bought a new car.

'Imperfiction' will forever be one of my favorite records and moments in time.