Quotes About Nostalgia

For the first 12 years of recording I would finish the album, then on the day it came out I'd never hear the songs again.

It's a funny thing having a recording be part of your career. It means you can go back and revisit yourself, in a way most people don't.

There are a bunch of songs that I think are beautiful recordings, and I'm proud of them, but I've no interest in listening to them.

I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'

The people who were in college in the '50s were my first real audience, and their kids, the people who found my records in the cabinet during their 'Mad 'magazine years picked me up also.

I always say to people that I left hip-hop in '97, meaning that I departed from listening to predominately hip-hop and just started really getting into records from the late '60s, early '70s. And once I made that change, I realized how much great music was made back in the day, and it started to become apparent how much we've lost in music.

I was never good at scratching, but I was good at collecting old records. Florida was a great place for that, because it's where people go to die.

I've almost never played the 'Smiths' records, once they've gone out. I was always like that and probably always will be.

There are so many great records that when you grow older, you're like, 'Oh man, this is the best record ever made.' And you're like, 'Oh it didn't get nominated or win a Grammy.' It's countless, how many amazing, classic American records haven't been knighted or whatever.

You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.

Blood on the Saddle' is one of my favorite cowboy records of all time.

Most of those takes were one take. I made those records in three minutes. I didn't have time to get nervous or scared the first time I sang it. It was all 'live' and I enjoyed it so much.

I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me.

Both my parents worked, so I was home alone a lot, and I would listen to their records. They belonged to the Columbia House record club, so they had records!

I keep on calling them records because they will always be records to me.

Growing up, we had folk records.

I think when I listen to old records, it puts me back in the atmosphere of what it felt like to make the record and who was there and what the room looked like. It's more a sensory memory.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with.

I saw 'Beauty and the Beast' at eight years old in theatres and spent hours trying to recreate the majestic imagery of that story in a drawing notepad at home.

You can't recreate the '60s.

I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible.

I don't think 'Magadheera' should be remade, nor do I think it will be remade. It is very difficult to recreate the same magic.