Muscle Memory Quotes

• Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Memories, Imagining Yourself, Brain

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• There's no set time or schedule for developing one's skills as a professional golfer, and it certainly doesn't come overnight. It's a muscle-memory exercise that comes over time.

  Ben Hogan

  Memories, Exercise, Skills

  Source: www.ritson-sole.com

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• I know what it is to put on weight. But when I got back to my routine, my body knew how to react. That's muscle memory, and you'll be amazed at what it can do.

  Arjun Rampal

  Memories, Routine, Weight

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• Each time you put the muscle back on, your body has that muscle memory and wants to hang on to it, so you just have be well underfed and over-trained to get it off and it's exhausting.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Memories, Body, Want

  "Chris Hemsworth on 'In the Heart of the Sea', Losing Weight, Ron Howard, and More". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. November 20, 2015.

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• All the things you can do to prepare for a role that free you, in the moment, are great. You have this muscle memory for things. You don't have to act it as much, once you've done it enough.

  Josh Peck

  Memories, Roles, Done

  "Josh Peck Talks RED DAWN, How He Landed the Role, Watching the Original Film, Boot Camp Training, Working with Chris Hemsworth and Hopes to Direct". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 20, 2012.

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• I listen to all of my Dutch happy-hardcore songs from my raving techno days when I was about 14. It's the most horrible music ever. I think it's some kind of muscle memory that brings me back to when I was 14. It makes me bounce around the gym quite happily.

  Lara Stone

  Song, Memories, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.

  St. Vincent

  Memories, Guitar, Instinct

  "St Vincent: 'I needed to know where the exits were'". Interview with Charlotte Richardson Andrews, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2011.

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• Sometimes an idea from six years ago will come to me out of the blue. And maybe I haven't even seen the lyrics I wrote down, but I'll just have this physical memory of having written it, and in my mind I can see the piece of paper, and the words I wrote down, and then by muscle memory, I'll remember the chords that go along with it.

  Ryan Adams

  Memories, Ideas, Blue

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• I can bulk up very fast. I can lift heavy weights because, like most people, I started off with heavy workouts. That's stayed in my muscle memory. I feel horrible when I feel my jeans are getting tight. Workouts peace me out.

  Arjun Rampal

  Workout, Memories, Jeans

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• Nearly every taping or audition has to be in an American accent, so you don't have a choice; you just have to get good at it. I'm sure you can appreciate accents - it's like learning any skill, you have to work at it and work at it and it takes an awful lot of time, until it's muscle memory and you don't have to think about it anymore.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Memories, Thinking, Skills

  "Jeremy Irvine’s Fan Club". Interview with Michael Douglas, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 17, 2015.

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