Music Memory Quotes

A Jethro Tull album was - along with Cream and Led Zeppelin - one of the first I ever bought.

I saw Kiss on 'The Dick Clark Show' in, like, 1980 or something, and 'Kiss Alive!' was the first record of theirs I had.

When you listen to most of the records that really had an impact on you, they always seem to be from a different era.

I have a memory of this experience when I was young, watching 'Stop Making Sense,' the Talking Heads concert movie, which is one of the best concert movies ever, and I saw it in a full house in New Zealand, and everyone was cheering between songs, and you really felt like you were part of the audience at the gig.

The earliest music I remember hearing is Al Green's 'Let's Stay Together.' That was when my momma and my daddy were together, before they went their separate ways.

Well all of Chuck's children are out there playing his licks, get into your kicks. Come back baby, rock and roll never forgets.

Every new experience will trigger melodies in my head.

As every teenage girl, I was absolutely obsessed with The Beatles, and the first record I bought was 'Please Please Me.' I'd have been 13 at the time.

I've come to appreciate how special a song is compared to other art forms, because you can carry it around in your head and your heart, and it remains part of you. It just comes as natural as a bird to me, always did. It's the way singer-songwriters make sense of our lives.

Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.

I grew up in the '90s and remember the lyrics back then were so abstract and open to interpretation. That always drove me crazy.

When I joined the band I didn't know any of the tunes, and when I left the band I didn't know any of the tunes!

I'm old enough to remember seeing James Brown live.

The first concert I ever went to was the Bee Gees.

I knew 'Hurt' way before Dad recorded it. In 1992, 'Downward Spiral' was one of my favorite albums.

Every single song that I've listened to is in my memory forever.

The first album that I bought was the Nirvana 'MTV Unplugged in New York' album.

I'm a Top 40 record guy. I remember the hits and don't remember the flops. Something in my brain blocks them out.

I don't know if I have a 'Greatest Album Ever.' I really liked 'The Blueprint' by Jay-Z. The production on that album was really great. 'All I Need' was the first song I used for walk-on music in 2002 for my second time ever on stage, so that means a lot to me.

If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago.

Bobby McGee' was the song that made the difference for me. Every time I sing it, I still think of Janis.

I've always loved 'Umbrella.' Funny enough, my ex-husband wrote that, and I'm not saying it was meant for me or anything - people will start twisting this - it is Rihanna's song! But I've always loved it.

My first concert was Third Eye Blind.

I was a Skynyrd fan before I was approached to be a part of Skynyrd, and they always ended it with 'Free Bird,' so I've been watching it since I was a kid.

I remember, when I heard Jeff Buckley's 'Grace,' on first listen I just thought it was such a great song.