Quotes About Vintage

I always felt like I was born in the wrong time period. I felt like I should've been born in the mid-to-late '40s.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

jacket. It was this sketch-book, which was as dilapidated

Retro's stomping ground isn't the auction house or antique dealer but the flea market, charity shop, jumble sale and junk shop.

Mind you, according to Walter Benjamin, the twentieth century's great philosopher of collecting, browsing and what we'd now call vintage shopping, 'the non-reading of books' is a defining characteristic of serious bibliomaniacs; he cites Anatole France, who blithely admitted that he'd barely read one-tenth of the books in his library.)

A flame that flickered, And a soul that whimpered, A candle that blazed, And a fragrance that raised. The flames were fed the same, But one remained diminished, While the other touched vintage!

grog (rum and water) Moultrie

It's very modern. Very gamine. You look like a jazz singer.

That's what I love about vintage cookbooks," Ricky said. "They're an amazing window into how life was lived in past decades and how our eating habits have changed.

There is nothing like a good old recipe. If it has lasted, then it is good.

I'd never record digitally. It's not because its' a horrible way to record, it's just not the best way to record my music, because my music is rawer, darker and a little more nostalgic.

We got our old Neve recording console, it was owned by The Kinks for a long time.

I miss corner men dressed up in the white cardigans, with sometimes the white hat they may have on.

I used to try to live down that whole big-hair era, but I've come to accept it and have fun with it all.

I've got a few great old Marshalls that I use live: '71 and '72 heads and an old combo with 2x12s.

I worked at a vintage guitar store, and the owner had ties with a lot of Japanese manufacturers and U.S. manufacturers that were beginning to pop up. So I was ordering parts and screwing them together and contacting local luthiers to finish and do frets and things, and I had put together two guitars, a red one and a black one.

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

For the longest time, people would say to me that I didn't feel very modern, that I seemed from another time.

I like the idea of stepping back into another time period.

If there was a time period I could be in, costume-wise, I'd like to be in something with corsets. Like the 1910s, that kind of thing.

I tend to like antique things. Something can be old, but it can be timeless.

I've got no problem whatsover with collar bars coming back in. I need to look a tiny bit older before I can dress like that the entire time - otherwise I'm going to look like I'm in 'Bugsy Malone.'

But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.

To be honest, when I was growing up - I think it's because of Kate Winslet and 'Titanic' - I always wanted to do period.