Tennessee Williams Quotes

Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love.

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.

If you ask me, music is the language of memory

Smell is important. It reminds a person of all the things he's been through; it is a sheath of memories and security.

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

I like to capture moments. It's like a photograph. Ten years from now you look at the photograph and you don't remember it but rather the whole week or month around the photo.

I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them.

I started to write things down, as a very young child, wanting to find a way to remember - to keep close, somehow - moments that made an impression on me.

Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.

Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.

There's all kinds of those moments in your life where either through a weird set of circumstances, or a song you hear, or a smell you smell, or one person says something totally out of the context without the meaning that you assigned to it, but you snap back to the way you were when you were 14 or 15. We all deal with that.

Let us say in the pocket of one of my old coats I find a movie ticket from many years ago. Once I see the ticket, not only do I remember that I saw this movie, but also scenes from this movie, which I think I have entirely forgotten, come back to me. Objects have this power, and I like it.

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

One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.

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.

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

I think listening to music from your youth is as powerful as a scent passed beneath your nose.

When I write about things, it's a lot to do with sense memory. How things smell and taste can bring incredible memories flooding back and transport you in an instant to another time and place.

My father's music is all I remember from my childhood.

Nothing recalls the past like music.

In memory, you can access something from the past, anything that you've experienced that you remember - it's there. Now, you might have a memento of it in a photograph or in a film or a building or some clothes that you wore. There might be something that connects you to this memory. But all of us are just all caught in this time, whatever that is.

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