Quotes About Nostalgia

I listen to oldies but goodies stations, '60s and '70s music.

The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity.

I grew up in the country surrounded by music.

My music is in young people's lives because it's so much a part of their parents' lives.

I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.

I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.

I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously.

Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.

Music is a soundtrack for your life. You hear some tune and you just get swept right back to that point in your life.

Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.

When I listen to old music, that's one of the few times that I actually have a kind of love for humanity.

I think the music of the Fifties is really good. I suspect it's much better musically than much of what's available now. Not in terms of production, but in terms of content.

The music you love when you're a teenager is always going to be the most important to you.

I find it very, very hard. He was part of the fabric of my life. We were kids together, and teenagers. We spent the whole of our lives with each other because of our music.

When we were at the Apollo, Holiday was a block away. I asked her for her autograph.

The music of your youth stays with you throughout your life.

Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.

There's just so little mystery left in music or film. It was all that was magical to me as a child.

I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.

I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being.

Music revives the recollections it would appease.

I associate times with certain music. It still is that for me. It's telling the story of our lives.

I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.

Yes, my first memory of singing, in general, was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I was ever connected to.