Song Recall Quotes

One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally gets into people's heads as they listen in the car. You don't have to memorize a Paul Simon song; it's just in your head, and you can sing along. With a poem, you have to will yourself to memorize it.

I've always been talented, always been able to sing or remember a song after hearing it one time.

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

Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden.

You're always remembering songs you wanna sing except when you're actually at karaoke.

I could probably recite just about every song that was on country radio between 1990 and 2000.

I believe very strongly in having melodic hooks, whether they're short or intricate, that you really remember in a movie.

I learned when I started to study piano that I could play by ear. I could hear a song on the radio a couple of times and hear the song and the lyrics and sing it for you after a couple of plays.

When I went to do my big audition with actors for Mr. Blonde, the thing that was very interesting was the first person to actually do the audition with the song, and they kind of actually acted out the whole scene, they weren't so great. It wasn't that they were magnificent, but the song, it was the first -it was all - been in my head.

Oh my God, when I auditioned for 'Hamilton,' I kept messing up the words to 'Say No To This.'

Some songs, you just can't shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.

It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.

I have never been able to remember the number of my driver's license, and there have been times when I couldn't even remember my own telephone number, but when I hear a song, sometimes only once, I never forget the melody or the lyric.

There's nothing that can lock a memory in your mind more distinctly than with a piece of music. It's so easy to remember something so vividly and so perfectly when you score it to something.

I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll.

It's incredibly important to me that you remember a song right after the first or second time you hear it. That something sticks to you, something that makes you feel, 'I need to hear that song again.' That's fundamental. Something you want again. And again.

There's something about pop songs that are remembered throughout time.

You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.