John Mayall Quotes

This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.

My albums really are like scrapbooks to me.

Pop music is a constant reminder of what you were doing at the time, it holds all sorts of memories.

A few things I've noticed about myself as a listener, and the music that I relate to and the music that's continued to mean something to me since I was a little kid or a teenager, is that they're songs that tell stories and songs that come from a place of experience.

For me, growing-up music was always about telling stories.

Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life.

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.

I make music to bring the dead to life for a couple minutes and then let it go.

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

Paris Hilton, that's very interesting what she did. I've never done that. I haven't really sort of ever got into that. As time passes, maybe I should record it and put it in a vault so that when I get a little old don't have the energy I can remember how life used to be.

Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

A song can take you to a special time in your life.

I love to listen to the music that first inspired me - I get that fresh feeling back.

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.

I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.

When you listen to old-school music, you can smell your mother's food in the kitchen. You can feel where you was when you first heard that song. That's what's beautiful about music. It's for everyone, but we all have individual memories that make us love it.

Seeing my father's handwriting puts me in contact with the man he was at each stage of his life.

Lyrically, I've always thought about albums as a record of a period of time.

My songs are a time stamp for a lot of people's lives.

When I was younger, music was always there.

Everyone's music is made of their own life experiences.

I may have crossed three-fourths of my life and I felt it would be worth jotting down my life in movies spanning decades.

I had no interest in music. But now, music means everything to me. I have no words to explain how beautiful music is. It is where you can create everything, like beautiful songs to sad songs to almost anything.

Varavelpu' has a special place in my heart because it was inspired from my own father's experiences.

People don't always realize that as a performer, you've got to relive those moments. Memories crash through your brains, and you've got to think about your past and the reason why you wrote the song. All that emotion comes back.