Jason Newsted Quotes

The past is what the past is.

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

Sometimes, to move into the future, you must go back the past.

The past has an undeniable grip on everyone, except, perhaps, amnesiacs.

The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

There is always something rather absurd about the past.

We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.

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

In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.

I exist only in the past.

Things that came before, people and things and experiences - that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

It's not like I pretend the past doesn't exist or that I'm not proud to be a part of it.

Nothing changes more constantly than the past

History takes time... History makes memory.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

The past is more than a memory.

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.

I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.