Eddy Arnold Quotes

The way I look at it, they're all part of my musical diary, and I can listen to any one of them and it will bring up memories of what was going on at that time.

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

So, when I was eight or nine my mom's friend gave her a big purple bag full of cassettes and I found Seals and Crofts' 'Summer Breeze'... When I found it I stopped going through the bag because I was like, well, I'm not going to find anything better than this. I just thought it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever heard.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

So don't get me wrong, I love my songs, and I still love hearing them. That's history, baby.

Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.

In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years.

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

I think of the Replacements only when they're brought up to me. For two years, I'm at home, they don't really cross my mind. I still hear them on the radio. I'm not ashamed of anything we did.

When you hear people scream because they're about to hear a song that has been a part of their life, there's nothing like that.

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.

It's hard to remember my childhood without remembering music.

I think we all love the music we listened to as kids the most.

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

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.

When I was younger, music was always there.

For me, 'Room' is an opportunity to relive an aspect of my childhood that I hadn't put a ton of thought into.

I would pass this music store on the way to school, and there was a clarinet in the window, a second-hand one. And I kept asking my parents to buy it, and eventually they did. I still have it now.

On first listen, it's nice to just soak up the sound without thinking about what it means. It's like a relationship. Records I've had for years mean more to me now than they did years ago.

I still love 'All Right Now,' strangely enough. But then that's probably because I didn't play it for some twenty years.

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

One of the first records I bought for myself was a Keith Whitley record. I still love the 'L.A. to Miami' album. There were so many things on there - 'Miami, My Amy,' 'Ten Feet Away,' 'Nobody in His Right Mind Would've Left Her.' I can put that album on repeat and listen.

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

I've always loved music since I was a little kid.

We still have the love for music; it will forever be in my heart.