Ian McLagan Quotes

I was playing 'The Flight of the Bumblebee,' and I totally forgot the ending, so I performed the whole piece again, and I still couldn't remember it.

I have a very bad memory. I can't remember my own life very well.

I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether.

I have a terrible memory.

My great frustration is that, more and more, my memories come and go, and friends all my life are not recognized. Many of the things I say and do, I can no longer remember even right afterwards.

I have a really bad memory, to be honest.

My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.

My memory's pretty much gone.

I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad.

Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.

When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

I am terrible at memorizing things. Hence, ad-libbing.

I'm just one of those people who can always tell the same story twice, forgetting that I've told it already.

Embarrassingly enough, I often can't remember how I came to write something.

I somehow can't remember numbers, names, and faces. I forget very easily.

I've got a short memory span.

My memory is quite good, except when I'm off stage.

I have a memory problem. My family and friends call me Lady Ghajini.

I'm like a goldfish. My memory is terrible.

My memory is not that good anymore.

I'm not good at remembering things, in general.

I couldn't tell you my wedding anniversary (although I seem to remember it was in June. Or maybe July. Definitely a month beginning with a 'J,' anyhow. But not January. Um. I think) and people I went to school with get extremely fed up with me when I bump into them in the street and have absolutely no recollection of their faces.

I don't retain facts very well when it comes to music history.

I have a terrible memory. I never remember names or faces. It's incredibly embarrassing.