Quotes About Vintage

I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new.

I never thought about how I didn't have a cell phone or I'm in 2011. I was just so happy to be able to be a character in the 30s and there are these actresses that I really liked in the 40s, 50s and 60s in American movies that I've seen since I was a little girl. But you don't really think like that when you prepare for a role.

Raised in a house filled with old books, I'm drawn to them: the dust jackets that call out a historical moment, the marbled boards, the words pressed into the page with movable type.

I am not a big fan of going to malls. I am pretty old-fashioned that way.

The Dodge Charger in the late '70s at Daytona, that looked like an awesome car.

There's a sort of eternal, indefinable 20th century quality to 'BTAS.' We never really pegged the decade, but it's anytime in the 20th century, so I often harkened back to things from the '40s or '50s.

So when people tell me that dressing curves is hard, I tell them to look to the 50s as there is an entire decade dedicated to it.

In L.A., retro culture is just part of the thing you do. When we were kids, we didn't have allowances, and it was not cool to wear designer clothes. So it meant that we were into 1920s dresses when we were 13.

To me, recording with live instruments and tape takes things back to an older sound that I like but that's still fresh.

I'm thinking about recording everything to tape like it's 1991 and seeing how that sounds.

I love tape. It's another member of the band, the way it settles and blankets everything.

When an old tape machine makes pitch wobble, some people would say that compromises fidelity and would try to get rid of it. But to me that wobble adds richness, it instantly brings back the feelings you associate with old recordings.

A lot of the gear came out of some of the old studios here in New York City. We picked up a lot of old microphones, reverb tanks, tape machines, so yeah, we try to record the old way, which takes more time and energy, but it certainly feels better when you're getting to the end of the process of making a record.

I have very old-fashioned tastes.

I've got two old Volvos, two old Subarus, and an old Ford Ranger. If you've got an old car, you've gotta have at least several old cars, 'cause one's always gonna be in the garage.

Oh, I wish we had the old days back again, exclaimed Jem. I'd love to be a soldier—a great, triumphant general. I'd give EVERYTHING to see a big battle. Well

sprinkling the old parquet floor with boracic acid for dancing.

You deserve to die, I whisper, suddenly realizing Iv'e said the words aloud. Excuse me? Nothing. Not nothing. You just told me that I deserve to be maggot feed. Not maggot feed, just- Dead! Forget it I don't know why I said that. Just daydreaming, I guess. Daydreaming about my death? Forget it, I repeat. Are you sure you aren't still mad that I wouldn't let you borrow my vintage fishnet leggings? More like I didn't want to borrow them

The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum

American love — like coke in green glass bottles...they don't make it anymore.

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French winegrowers faced the agonizing prospect of trying to get their harvest in before vineyards were turned into battlefields.

an old Underwood office machine so big and black and ancient it looked as though it should come with a foreign correspondent attached.

He could be wearing a red letterman's jacket, driving around in a Corvette with the top down, one arm on the steering wheel, on his way to pick up his girl for the sock hop.