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I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and the music scene that we were part of. So, in a certain way, music cuts through time like almost nothing else. You know, it makes us feel like we're back in an earlier moment.

— Jennifer Egan

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Stevie Wonder

Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.

— Olga Kurylenko

When you look back on music history, it falls into these neat periods, but of course, the period you yourself are living through seems totally scattered and chaotic.

— Eric Whitacre

I can look back over my earlier music, and it takes me back to the place I was emotionally.

— Sarah McLachlan

The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

— Akon

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.

— Tom Waits

Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.

— Vince Staples

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

— Ronnie Spector

Everyone goes through the ups and downs of living - fretting about the future, worrying about what happened. Music teaches us how to be in the moment.

— David Sanborn

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

— Tennessee Williams

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