Quotes About Vintage

We have a great regard for old age when it is bottled.

and the sort of Italian restaurant furniture, in dark welded steel, that might have belonged to any decade of the past hundred years.

I didn't come out here to be abused by vintage product from the Hefty toy department.

He wore shoes that made her think of old French priests, bicycling

I definitely spend the most money on shoes, partly because vintage footwear can be a little funky - in a bad way. I like to keep things pretty simple up top and then go weird with the shoes.

and she felt sorry for the old black Singer sewing machine, which seemed never to have had any fun.

His mother called them his gems and often asked him why he liked things that were worn and old. It would have been hard to tell her. But there was something about the way in which the link of a chain was worn or the thread on a bolt or a castor-wheel that gave him a vague feeling of pain when he ran his fingers over them. They were like worn shoe-soles or very thin dimes. You never saw them wear, you only knew they were worn, obscurely aching

I like digging around. I'm a real magpie. I used to raid the old music shops in the early '50s in Paris and Brussels. You could pick up some incredible and often valuable music for almost nothing back then.

I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.

I'm not really frightened by experimenting - that's the main thing. I really like mixing very old beautiful pieces that are from thrift shops or that have some historical value with quite new futuristic things.

His brown corduroy jacket was so old that its ridges had flattened out.

I have one car that works; it's fast and safe: an Audi 5. And I have two old cars that never work: an old Peugeot convertible, and an Alfa Romeo Giulia.

I've always loved old hot rods. I have four or five of them at home that I work on when I'm not working out.

They were like little palaces: all rococo or art deco. You'd walk in off those hot streets into a nice, air-cooled theater, and you'd spend all day watching Cagney or Jimmy Stewart. It cost all of 17 cents.

Well, I guess that early 12 string. The first Martin I bought. I bought it around 1957 with money I earned as a janitor assistant. I bought brand new. I still have that.

Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the new and used equation we should strive for in our lives.

My favorite outfit is like a 'Peaky Blinders' kind of look. I have a really old-man style.

The Life—that feeling—The Life—the late 1940s early 1950s American Teenage Drive-In Life.

Ed Hardy called . . . he wants his clothes back!

There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.

I am fond of lovely old words like 'locomotive'.

In the '70s, everything shone as bright as brass.

He cranked the key until the watch was fully wound, then withdrew the key and held the watch to his ear.

Bryl-cream, a little dab will do you.