Quotes About Nostalgia

I loved Jackie Chan growing up, watching mostly his Hong Kong film work.

When I grow up, I want to have an exhibit called 'American Motel.'

We used to go to the jazz fest in Kansas City. And my mother and father took me.

To say that a family is happy I think is to diminish it, taking out what is interesting. Growing up, I don't think my family was any happier or unhappier than anyone else's. My mother and father should have been divorced or never even married. On the other hand, I remember many moments of happiness.

As you grow older, you learn to appreciate all the artistry. I'm actually on my way back to the blues, you know, that my mothers and fathers liked.

When I was younger, I always saw my friends with their mothers and fathers and felt a little jealous of them for having a father close by.

It's not a case of 'look at me in my car'; it's more, 'look at the car'. I like the idea of other people enjoying them, because everything has become a bit faceless and nobody likes the motor car any more.

I always liked motorcycles and cars when I was a kid.

I used to have go-karts and mopeds and motorcycles when I was a kid. Then my grandpa let me drive a real car at about 13 or 14 and I just... I never cared about bikes again after that.

Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist.

Sometimes you're inspired by an old-school song that you want to chop up and make a sample out of it. I find that with a lot of older Motown music.

I grew up with Cher and Motown, beautiful costumes.

My folks had a lot of Motown records, so that was a kind of an early inspiration. I grew up on the radio really.

'Let's Get It On' is a classic Motown single, endlessly repeatable and always enjoyable.

I want to bring that old soul back, the meaningful lyrics and all of that. And I can't think of a better way to do that than through Motown.

I'm obsessed with the sound of today, but I was raised on the Motown sound.

My mum used to listen to Motown. Diana Ross was my first singing teacher, really. I'd just sing along all the time.

I grew up listening to a lot of classic jazz, and stuff like The Beatles, and old Motown stuff, and a lot of classical music. I just loved all of that.

Baseball's a dull game, really; that's the reason that it is so good. We do not love the game so much as we love the sprawl and drowse and shirt-sleeved apathy of it.)

And always America is the place of the deathless and enraptured moments, the eye that looked, the mouth that smiled and vanished, and the word; the stone, the leaf, the door we never found and never have forgotten. And these are the things that we remember of America, for we have known all her thousand lights and weathers, and we walk the streets, we walk the streets forever, we walk the streets of life alone.

He saw now that you can't go home again--not ever. There was no road back.

The huge, dark wall of loneliness is around him now. It encloses and presses in upon him, and he cannot escape. And the cancerous plant of memory is feeding at his entrails, recalling hundreds of forgotten faces and ten thousand vanished days, until all life seems as strange and insubstantial as a dream.

And he knew that he would never come again, and that lost magic would not come again. Lost now was all of it - the street, the heat, King's Highway, and Tom the Piper's son, all mixed in with the vast and drowsy murmur of the Fair, and with the sense of absence in the afternoon, and the house that waited, and the child that dreamed.

You can't go home again.