“I've reached the age where anyone who lets me talk seems like an old By listening to my memories, you have become part of them.” SeemsAgeMemoriesListeningLet Me Book:GIDEON'S DRIVE; ASK FOR ME TOMORROW; HELLSPOUT Source: GIDEON'S DRIVE; ASK FOR ME TOMORROW; HELLSPOUT
“One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to Motown radio. He was this skinny white bald guy, but he was really moved by blues and Motown and funk.” GuyFatherMemoriesWhiteRoomsListeningMovedRadioStrongestSkinnyLiving RoomDetroitFunkMotownBongos Author:Sufjan Stevens
“My earliest memories about music are connected with going to church and listening to organ music. I am not from a musical family, actually, and I remember my first musical fascination to be for organ music. I wanted to become an organist and not a pianist.” FirstsWantedRememberChurchMemoriesListeningMusicalConnectedOrgansFascinationPianistGoing To Church Author:Rafal Blechacz
“I'm doing more deep listening, which is part of the role or job of the songwriter. I think with a lot of songwriting, songs sing themselves to you tonally and also lyrically. And it's not necessarily your own visual memories that are writing the song. It's like there are words that you can catch out there and you have to be able to see and hear them.” ThinkingWritingAbleJobsSongMemoriesRolesListeningVisualsSongwritingSongwritersDeep Listening Author:Mirah
“I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories.” PeopleChildrenMemoriesListeningGrewGrew UpKneesGrandmotherMy GrandmotherOld PeopleElders Author:Hilary Mantel
“The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood. They are not profound, but they have stayed with me through life, and when I am very old, they will still be near . . . Memories of mother drying my tears, reading aloud, cutting cookies and singing as she did, listening to prayers I said as I knelt with my forehead pressed against her knee, tucking me in bed and turning down the light. They have carried me through the years and given my life such a firm foundation that it does not rock beneath flood or tempest.” YearsHeartDoeSaidStillsLightMotherReadingGivenMemoriesPrayerCuttingChildhoodRocksTearsListeningMomMy HeartBedSingingFoundationProfoundFirmGentleKneesClosestFloodCookiesForeheadsTempestThrough The YearsReading AloudFirm Foundation Author:Margaret Sanger