Quotes About Nostalgia

I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.

We didn't go to Broadway musicals when I was growing up; it was too expensive.

I would love for musicals to come back on the screen.

When I was a kid, I grew up watching musicals.

I love musicals. I grew up on musicals.

I remember really getting into 'The Wiz' and an old musical called 'Purlie,' which Melba Moore sang. I liked those roof-raising shows because I connected deeply with the gospel aspects of those musicals.

You go to a musical; you are deafened by them, with everything blown up. I remember musicals when they didn't use microphones.

Now that I'm in my late 40s, I'm trying to make up for a little bit of lost musicals time.

I grew up on musicals, and I love them so much.

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.

I'm a guitar player, really - I mean, first and foremost - I grew up with all that great 1960s music, in terms of growing up, becoming a musician, so it's like first-love stuff; I'm always going to go back to it.

There's a lot of older musicians who say your whole life making music, you're really trying to get back to that first couple of things you liked when you were a kid. And as much as you might like to think you're not, you really are.

I grew up in Zurich until I was 12, and I've always come to Vorderer Sternen for a sausage, a hunk of bread, and some mustard.

We're drinking my friend, To the end of a brief episode, Make it one for my baby, And one more for the road.

I have kept a reading diary since I was 18. I am jealous of my friend who has kept hers since she was ten.

I would come home with my friend Bill, and we would sit and watch 'Get Smart.' And I was Agent 44, and he was Agent 85. And it was a fantastic - and all we wanted to do was sleep with Barbara Feldon.

Some of my most important musical experiences were from a burnt CD with songs my friend downloaded for me at a terrible digital quality.

Growing up, 'Mean' Gene was the voice of my generation.

I want people of my generation who've never seen 'Endeavour' before to enjoy this series.

I was on 'Melrose' at a time where we had to all go home and be there at the same time when the show was on, or set your VCR. But that was a big thing, and people of my generation still talk about that. They remember where they were, at what point of their lives that show came, and then talking about it the next day.

A lot of people in my generation have dared to ask questions like, 'Who is James Dean?' And I can't imagine asking a question like that, just because it's been ingrained in me since I was so young.

I have only seen movies of my generation - 'Mother India,' 'Shree 420,' 'Awaara.' Those days, we had actors such as Dilip Kumar, Ashok Kumar.

Disney was, like, such an amazing experience always for me, such a huge part of my life.

New York is in my soul.