Josh Young 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 can't really remember my first headline show.

If I ever tell the same story twice, just laugh and roll with it because, when you get older, you start doing that kind of stuff.

I just decided to play make believe, memorize it like it was just some kind of song and just take the emotion out of the words. And I did. I goofed a couple of times.

Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem is, our brains have always been terrible at remembering details. They were like that way before the Internet came along.

Sometimes I get a little drunk, sometimes I get a little out of it, sometimes I get out of tune onstage, but that's something that shouldn't be dissected.

As an actor, one of my greatest fears is losing my memory.

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

The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while.

I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what's going on. I think I should know, I kind of know, I remember rehearsing... and the audience is there waiting.

There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I'd tell everyone, Don't ask me about dates. I don't even remember what I did yesterday.

I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.

I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.

People talk from memory and memory often plays false.

I've been in a lot of shows, I will say that. Every once in a while, I'll look at a tape of something I've done, and I won't even remember having done it.

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

I'm confident when I perform but going into a horrible, boring studio and playing the same thing over and over again is really different to being on stage!

You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

... lapses of memory are only attractive when you've encouraged them, not when they take you unawares.

You watch Jeff Sessions testifying in front of Congress, Jesus, like watching an amnesiac: "I don't recall," "I don't remember," "I don't recall," "I don't remember," "I don't remember what I don't recall," "I recall what I don't remember." Amazing.

As you get older; you've probably noticed that you tend to forget things. You'll be talking with somebody at a party, and you'll know that you know this person, but no matter how hard you try, you can't remember his or her name. This can be very embarassing, especially if he or she turns out to be your spouse.

You try and remember, but it never works.

I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.

I have an amazing ability to forget.