Quotes About Nostalgia

I was a dozy boy; I'd like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey - pathetically rebellious in a cheeky, chappy sort of way.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

When I first got into the music scene, I was inspired by different songwriters. I like to dress from the '50s and '60s. I like to paint a picture of that era through my music and clothes. I am inspired by a whole a lot of things, from doo-wop to gospel and soul music.

And one of my favorites was Eddy Arnold of course. He just had that smooth, soulful voice.

Nineties music was what I grew up with, and I want to make music that's soulful but that you can also dance and drive to.

Anyone born in the year 1950 who grew to fancy themselves as a soulful 18-year-old bought 'Songs of Leonard Cohen' upon its original release in 1968. For many of them, it was the beginning of a lifelong friendship.

But I'm really into old music - bluesy, soulful singers, like Etta James, Ray Charles, and Aretha Franklin. I wouldn't have minded being born in the 1960s!

Garage rock is music for older people with young souls and young people with old souls. It's a certain sensibility, and you may have it when you're 17 or when you're 67.

Most of my memories are the sound of rain on caravan roofs.

There are things that I am nostalgic about from the 'good old days.' I loved motion control cameras, actually. I love the way they sound. I used to do a lot of miniature work, and it's still warranted, but it's done less often, largely for budgetary, schedule, and flexibility reasons.

You can't just plug your guitar in your computer and make it sound like an old record.

When I was a little boy, there was no sound in the movies.

To me I grew up watching 'All That Jazz' and 'Cabaret,' and when I was younger 'Mary Poppins',' The Sound Of Music,' and 'Singin' In The Rain.'

I saw The Sound of Music when I was 10 and thought that it was the most beautiful singing I had ever heard.

Julie Andrews is so iconic, and I grew up watching 'The Sound of Music' - it's every girl's dream to play Maria, in a way, I think. That music!

'The Sound of Music' is one of my favourite old musical films.

I do not knock 'Poppins' or 'The Sound of Music.' They gave me pleasure, and I know they've given a lot of people enormous pleasure.

When I was growing up, I had a nanny who would always play 'The Sound of Music' and 'Bye Bye Birdie,' so I was always listening to that stuff.

I was obsessed with 'The Sound of Music.' I always feel nostalgic watching it.

I'll never forget getting my first Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chain records, and hearing that wonderful, beautiful darkness. And the rhythmic intensity, that's what attracted me more than anything else.

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary.