Holly Near Quotes

A song can take you to a special time in your life.

I was doing our first album when I was 19. It came out as a hit, and I blinked - then 37 years went by. There's a lot of stuff that happened in there, but once the snowball started going down the hill, I took the ride.

It's odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about 'old and other times' as though I had a lot of years behind me. Now I do, so there is a difference in the weight of memory.

Time isn't just a fleeting thing. It never moves forward without engraving its mark upon the heart.

Life is short. Time is short. As we get older, time does quicken. It's long, and it's long pertaining to that thought, that the past is not done with you because you can't rid of it.

This moment will just be another story someday.

Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done, You walk the earth you are forgetting. Sometimes you hear a distant refrain. What does it mean, you ask, who is singing? A childlike sun grows warm. A grandson and a great-grandson are born. You are led by the hand once again. The names of the rivers remain with you. How endless those rivers seem! Your fields lie fallow, The city towers are not as they were. You stand at the threshold mute.

I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time.

I've been around a long time, and it seemed for the longest time like I was the young guy. Now, all of a sudden, I've got fans with beards telling me, "I used to watch you when I was a kid." So, I don't know what happened to all those years, but the little bit I do remember? It was definitely a fun ride.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

I don't know why it is, but sometimes I feel like I'm 60. It's like I've been around for a long time. I felt that way even when I was 8.

But where are the snows of yester year?

I was born in 1949 - which seems like a long time ago... Actually, it is a long time ago, when I think about it.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

I've got a good memory. Sometimes it's a curse. I remember what the light was like in the room the first time I heard Van Morrison's 'Moondance.'

It is funny what a year can do.

The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

Going home is not necessarily a wonderful experience. It always comes with a sense of loss and makes you so conscious of the inexorable passage of time.