Forgotten Experience Quotes

It's pathetic, but I don't really remember my first time reading 'The Great Gatsby.' I must have read it in high school. I'm pretty sure I remember it being assigned, and I generally did the reading. But I don't remember having a reaction to the book, even though I loved literature, and other works made a lasting impression on me at that age.

My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.

The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.

Things like that become a blur - shot at some soundstage, somewhere - that's as much as I can remember.

I remember swallowing my tooth up in a high chair, but I definitely don't remember the first time I played bass.

I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.

TV is great, and I love it, but to watch somebody's hand-crafted drawings on the big screen is an experience that we've forgotten as an audience, how much fun 2D can be.