Quotes About Nostalgia

I always been writing songs since I was, like, six. I was listening to Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Frankie Laine and people like that. I was just in the backyard writing songs.

I listen to Sinatra way more than a person my age probably should.

It's amazing the number of young people who are interested in Frank Sinatra.

There is no demand for Frank Sinatra Jr. records. There never has been.

In my own career, I used to do a Sinatra medley in every show, or at least sing one of his songs.

I never listen to 'Nevermind.' I haven't listened to it since we put it out. That says something.

Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I'd lost my father too, it was too easy for me to glimpse a future point where I alone was the keeper of not just my own childhood memories, but of my family lore.

The first time I recorded without Allen Toussaint, I wanted to do doo-wop. Everything I've done since then has got some kind of doo-wop essence in it.

I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a guitar and I would sit with her and she would sing and I learned to sing along with her.

My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that.

I was born in Singapore, but I left at four so memories are hazy.

My grandmother used to get her shoes made in Paris in the '30s, and they would be shipped to her in Singapore.

I have fond memories of Singapore. I shot here for around 25 days for 'Bengali Babu English Mem.'

Probably to me the greatest singer, female voice, is Billie Holiday. And one of the most moving for me, I don't know why - maybe it's nostalgia, maybe because my life is one of constant partying, whatever.

My dad is a singer. He used to sing in nightclubs, or pizza joints.

I've often felt I've been born out of my time, and when I started Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, I wanted to be a 1940s jazz singer.

I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily.

My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.

I used to be a great blues singer.

My dad was a musician. He was a singer and he played the guitar, so music was always around.

My mum was a big fan of E.L.O. and Elvis Costello. She used to play that, consistently, all the time when we were kids. And my dad, he would claim to be a singer... You know, he loves singing, and he used to sing a lot when he was a kid and at parties and stuff like that. So I come from a very party-musical family.

The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.

I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s.

The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.