Clarence Clemons Quotes

Music is stored in our long-term memory. When we learn something through music, we tend to remember it longer and believe it more deeply. Dr. Joyce Brothers

When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.

I only know the lyrics to songs that I listened to between the ages of 11 and 15.

And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not.

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

What's interesting is a lot of the older music when we start performing it, it acts a lot like muscle memory. It's kind of like riding a bike. For me as a singer, I just had to remember like what part of my face I sang that into.

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

Last week I forgot how to ride a bicycle.

My memory is certainly in my hands. I can remember things only if I have a pencil and I can write with it and I can play with it. ... I think your hand concentrates for you. I don't know why it should be so.

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

I love to play music. I'm terrible at it, but I love learning about it .

We have to remember everything. If we don't, by the time we grow up it'll be gone forever.

The more I can learn about music, the more I learn about other things.

Even when I have someone playing the song I give them the idea. I'm learning. I'm getting better over the years.

Most of us must learn a great deal every day in order to keep ahead of what we forget.

Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they think and feel. If we are to hope for a society of culturally literate people, music must be a vital part of our children's education.

It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

I don't roam around with a camera and never did. I took pictures in spurts, for my books, for some assignments or on special occasions. Like people who take out their cameras for Christmas and birthdays. Each time, like them, probably, I feel it’s the first time and as if I would have to relearn the moves. Luckily, it comes pretty fast, like riding a bike.

Skill to do comes of doing.

It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.

It was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic tune the same.

Repetition is the father of learning, I repeat, repetition is the father of learning.

Just because you're old that doesn't mean you're more forgetful. The same people whose names I can't remember now I couldn't remember fifty years ago. . .