Thomas Newman Quotes

I've never outgrown my childhood.

Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how I see myself.

I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.

I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.

You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when you were little - the innocence that you are able to maintain because you have to find that again in order to connect with your child keeps you in a special state of mind.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay 'forever young at heart.'

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

I am still into the people I listened to growing up, so I completely remember what is like to be a fan, I haven't changed.

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

Nothing sounded as sincere as Nirvana's music. It took a long time for me to accept that any other music could be good in other ways. Including my own.

You - I don't think anybody ever forgets the first person they fell in love with. That's something that everybody remembers, and it doesn't matter what the time period is or where; I mean, those feelings are always the same.

One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tribute to John Lennon. He was playing piano by himself and singing 'Imagine,' and I remember feeling an anxiety and shortness of breath.

Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.

There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.

I don't much like 'Wonderwall,' but the effect that song has on people, I can't deny it.

My mum especially listens to music in a way that is incredibly feelings-based. There's virtually no snobbery about what sounds are in it, she just wants to hear a song and that is quite refreshing.

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

You never watch movies the same as you do when you're a kid, ever again.

I don't listen to a lot of music any more and even the people I've loved for years - the Nick Drakes of this world - I can't go back to them and listen to them over and over.

'Tryin' to Get the Feeling' has been a revelation. I'd forgotten how powerful that was. I'd forgotten how deep I can crawl into that one, and maybe because I'm older it means even more.

I don't think I'm an instantaneous act the whole world will love in one second - but that's how I've felt about bands I love.

It's weird, the idea of someone else playing my dad, but weirdly nice.

I think teen-age love is a great thing. There's nothing quite like it and never will be for the rest of your life.

If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.