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Quotes About Oldies

I grew up listening to oldies, like Motown. That's from my mom.
~ Ryan Lochte
I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
~ Nastassja Kinski
New Wave art was the rage of the eighties. Now it's exhibited in oldies-but-goodies museums, usually in black-and-pink frames.
~ Brad Holland
neighbour. He is a retired major and now runs the local Neighbourhood Watch group, Lower Toddle branch. It is a collection of oldies who have joined forces to keep an eye out for burglars, but Mr Parker uses it as an excuse to spy on everyone. One person he has got his eye on particularly is Ben. The nosy neighbour had been convinced the boy and his granny had stolen the Crown Jewels, but nobody had believed him. Now Mr Parker is out for revenge!
~ David Walliams
There's so many oldies stations with 'Never Ending Story' and 'Too Shy' on their playlists, thank God. People still love the songs.
~ Limahl
I've always been a fan of music. I listened to a whole lot of oldies - I never really listened to rap music that much.
~ O. T. Genasis
When I used to play nightclubs, you had to play Top 40 or favorite oldies that maybe people could relate to.
~ Rick Danko
Sonnymoon and Quadrants are a couple of bands that really inspire me in terms of the melodics of things and certain tones and just what feels good. It takes me back to the type of music that I grew up on in my household. We played a lot of gangsta rap, but we also played a lot of oldies, and I think that mix is part of what inspires my sound.
~ Kendrick Lamar
After a moment of fiddling with the tuning dial she found a radio station playing '90s oldies.
~ Mary Kay Andrews
The Peggot aunts must have seized the equipment because the music was oldies, Michael Jackson and Prince.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
When I was a boy, I used to stay with a school friend in Bexhill, in Sussex, which was then well-known for being the town with more oldies than any other. Aged ten, I felt slightly embarrassed by this, though I'm not sure why.
~ Craig Brown
I'm a Turner Classic Movies guy. That's it. I'd much rather sit here and watch an oldie than anything new.
~ George A. Romero
I want to go back to the format that radio started with rock n' roll, with country artists and rhythm and blues with that oldies type feeling. I want to put it all together and create a Top 40 of rhythm and blues and country and straight blues with Wolfman at the reins.
~ Wolfman Jack
she makes a sound with her throat like she's annoyed or going to throw up and then changes it over to a 1990s rock oldies channel.
~ Cecil Castellucci
We listen to oldies when we go on tour. Beach Boys radio was really clutch; that was definitely our favorite Pandora station.
~ G-Eazy
I listen to both oldies and contemporary stations. I enjoy listening to current stuff because there's an energy to it that's inspiring.
~ Carole King
I figure the oldies are real close to what rocking country use to be.
~ Wolfman Jack
I hate it when bands do that; they're so proud of their new album, they have to play all of it and a couple of golden oldies.
~ Ville Valo
I really listened to a lot of oldies. I didn't really listen to anything that was modern until I was 11 or 12.
~ Alison Sudol