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“Music is the way our memories sing to us across time.”

Way Memories Music Music Is Our Memories

Author:Lance Morrow

“The memories which come to us through music are not accompanied by any regrets; for a moment music gives us back the pleasures it retraces, and we feel them again rather than recollect them.”

Giving Feels Moments Memories Pleasure Music Regret

Author:Madame de Stael

“Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.”

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Author:Thomas Beecham

“In memory everything seems to happen to music.”

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Book:The Glass Menagerie

Source: The Glass Menagerie

“Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.”

Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

“The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.”

Long Said Important Night Memories Music Gone Musician Singing Hot Jazz Folks Long Ago Yards Moonlight Jazz Music Jazz Musician

Author:Louis Armstrong

“The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life.”

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Book:Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To

Source: Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To

“It appears to me that the subject of music, from Machaut to Boulez, has always been its construction. Melodies of 12-tone rows just don't happen. They must be constructed....To demonstrate any formal idea in music, whether structure or stricture, is a matter of construction, in which the methodology is the controlling metaphor of the composition...Only by 'unfixing' the elements traditionally used to construct a piece of music could the sounds exist in themselves--not as symbols, or memories which were memories of other music to begin with.”

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Author:Morton Feldman

“Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.”

Play Memories Music Ears Damn Good Memories Learning To Read Damn Good Braille

Author:Ray Charles

“Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.”

Song Memories Music Cutting Let Me Lays Silent Flesh Melody Buried Composer Shut Up Discs

Book:Prisoner of Love

Source: Prisoner of Love

“Fonny and I just sat there... while the voices of the congregation rose and rose around us, without mercy... Teddy had the tambourine, and gave the cue to the piano player-I never got to know him: a long dark, evil-looking brother, with hands made for strangling; and with these hands he attacked the keyboard like he was beating the brains out of someone he remembered. No doubt the congregation had their memories, too, and they went to pieces. The church began to rock.”

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Author:James A. Baldwin

“Music at its essence is what gives us memories.”

Giving Memories Music Essence

Author:Stevie Wonder