#memory

In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis. ↗

— Dwight Yoakam

#bag #basis #cassette #commit #constant

While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#also #complex #composing #fantastic #frank

It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped itself on heart and brain, instantly recallable in every detail, for all of his life. There was no telling what made these moments different from any other, though he knew them when they came. He had seen sights more gruesome and more beautiful by far, and been left with no more than a fleeting muddle of their memory. But these-- the still moments, as he called them to himself-- they came with no warning, to print a random image of the most common things inside his brain, indelible. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#beauty

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#dream #memory #today #tomorrow #yesterday

Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the fragments together, for a story, there is a certain - not falsification, but a shifting. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#everybody #fallible #fragments #how #join

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be. ↗

— David Halberstam

#less #memory #often #than #truth

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind. ↗

— Lionel Hampton

#heart #memory #mind #stored

My favorite New York memory is that blizzard in '96. I get chills thinking about it. It's my favorite time here - call me crazy. I'm from Canada, and it's very cold up there. ↗

— Shalom Harlow

#blizzard #call #canada #chills #cold

His name, Buzz, fits. He can buzz along at 40 miles an hour when his genetic memory moves him. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#buzz #fits #genetic #him #his

I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago. ↗

— James Herriot

#couple #days #even #happened #having