Quotes About Vintage

I love mechanical things, older cars especially.

I like old rockabilly style. I always wear denim on denim with suspenders and slicked back hair.

Don't buy the bootlegs, save your stuff, everything's coming back out.

I just love second-hand clothes.

The first car the family owned was a Model A.

I owned a '70 Camaro for many years, which I loved.

I want my paintings to look like they were found in a garage. If they get a scratch or a hole in them, it just becomes part of the painting.

You wind back the clock several decades when you visit a Lonely Place; and when you touch down, you half expect a cabin attendant to announce, "We have now landed in Lonely Place's Down-at-Heels Airport, where the local time is 1943 and the temperature is...frozen.

A visit to a bookshop will be a difficult one if you're looking for any picture book in print that is more than 50 years old.

If you're at an antiques fair, and have been unable to beat the dealer down earlier in the day, pay a return visit at the end. They may be more inclined to accept your offer, rather than having to pack the piece up and take it home.

Vintage is my vocabulary... like the notes of a musician.

I collect different game hats, like Syracuse Women's Volleyball; I have a Navy Basketball hat. They're all vintage but in new condition.

I've always loved '60s fashion; it's so sexy.

The first time I shared my music and style with my mom, she said, 'Boy, you look like you came right out of the 1950s.'

I like to shop for old jazz albums.

I'm a '90s baby.

Old guns rarely die, they just hang on walls.

I love seeing fashion from the past making a comeback.

Once I was done making my album 'Cry Baby,' I knew I wanted to make a vintage-inspired baby bottle perfume.

I have literally wanted a vintage business for as long as I can remember, but I am glad I waited. I've learned so much over the past ten years. So much about quality, shape and how to spot what truly is vintage and what isn't.

In my bachelor days, I had a small upright piano in my kitchen. It cost £10 from eBay plus £70 delivery. It was because I'd seen an old photo of Tom Waits - with dirty dishes, empty bottles, a hot plate, a coffee machine and a piano strewn with lyric sheets - and fallen in love with it.

There's a design book I got years ago that had a statue of a dog with a bunch of hats on it, and I just obsessively fell in love with it. For years I searched for that dog. One day I walked into an antique shop in La Jolla and I found a white dog that I could put hats on!

As much as I love to shop online, I also love walking the streets on a beautiful day and seeing what finds I can discover in a small shop or vintage store.

I grew up watching old black and white movies where Marlene Dietrich or Jean Harlow would go walking down some cobblestone street in ripped stockings and head into some smoky boite and sing for a pathetic living. That's so what I wanted to be.