Quotes About Nostalgia

I started using vinyl because I stole all my parents' records when I was 10. I didn't think about sound quality then, but I always loved how they sounded.

I go for a nice walk in my neighborhood and search for vinyl, old jazz, classics. Then I go home and listen to them.

I always go back to old vinyl albums I loved, and that's sort of the aim I had with 'Hero' - just to make it look classic and feel like me, but also timeless in a way.

CDs are not as good as vinyl, and you buy one in the supermarket along with the yoghurt.

I still play my old vinyl LPs - I like the scratches - and I miss browsing in record shops, because they held great nostalgia for me.

I have this old speaker set with amps and a record player from the 1970s. And I'm slowly collecting vinyl again.

My dad is a guitar player with huge vinyl record collection. I loved listening to his albums, especially Cream and The Yardbirds.

I grew up with vinyl records and remember the pleasure and the kind of buzz that I got from buying a beautiful vinyl record with the sleeve and the lyrics - all that kind of tactile experience that you could get from an old vinyl record.

I love the sound of vinyl best. My sweetheart and I love to put on a vinyl record, it feels and sounds so much better.

I just sort of feel like John Hughes movies are perfect, but they're missing violence. If they just had some violence, they'd be perfect.

I usually get down with a little Violent Femmes in the summer. You know, 'Blister In The Sun.'

I remember my father banging away on an IBM Selectric in the garage. He wrote his first novels on that machine. I remember its pebbly surface, its cold heft. It made its mark, literally and violently.

The violin has always been important for me. My mom was a single mom and we moved around a lot, and so the violin was always the one constant I had. I always feel better when I had my violin. Playing it is cathartic.

I went to The Miller School of Albemarle, just outside of Charlottesville, Virginia. As a kid, I really loved the movie 'Toy Soldiers' starring Sean Astin and Lou Gossett Jr., and when I found out they filmed that movie at the Miller School, I was excited to go there.

I remember I made $22 a week doing dinner theater in Norfolk, Virginia. Back then, in the '70s, that was pretty good for a teenager, for a part-time job.

The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.

I was born in Pennsylvania, but for most of my childhood, my family lived in Lynchburg, Virginia.

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

Virtual Self' was me trying to paint a picture of a very foggy, distorted memory that I had of electronic music on the internet.

I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day.

When I think about the friends who've died, and sadly there's a lot of mine, there are certain people you can virtually see.

One of my clearest impressions about India as a child was that my parents' stories would have been impossible had they stayed. Of course, such a vision was self-serving, for it made a virtue of our displacement.

Youth is one of the most visceral times that I remember.

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.