Quotes About Retro

I'm a Turner Classic Movies guy. That's it. I'd much rather sit here and watch an oldie than anything new.

I like Sonic and all those types of games, and Sega Genesis.

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

Old images and films are my main source of inspiration.

I would describe my sound as classic Motown.

I was supportive! I was 1950s girdle supportive.

mid-century fiberglass lampshades—you know the kind, with atomic designs,

I think the Olsen twins' line, The Row, has some cool stuff. And I'm kind of obsessed with a clothing line called Stop Staring. It has a lot of vintage-type dresses that are retro '40s and '50s inspired.

Spaces I love to do - the uglier the better - tend to be really old, dated basements - especially from the '60s to the '80s. I love those.

I love retro culture. I love retro games; I love retro music.

I really like arcade games and like the '80s and early '90s kind of games, just because there's a real kind of naivete to them, but there's like a real inventiveness to it as well.

I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.

Everybody trusted Cronkite because he reminded them of their favorite uncle or trusted family physician. Being square in the age of the Beatles made Cronkite retro cool.

There's a soft spot in my heart for the color and fantasy of the '80s.

I used to watch a lot of Nick at Nite as a kid, and it would play the original 'Saturday Night Live,' 'The Carol Burnett Show,' and 'Laugh-In.'

I had the regular Nintendo, and I had a ridiculous amount of games for it.

As rooms went it was a sad statement, with its ancient coppertone appliances, white-with-gold-speckled countertops and fake-brick linoleum floor.

Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up those reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation's clothes and hair suddenly retro.

I love 70's music.

she saw the store through new eyes: a place where you could find cocktail dresses from the sixties for Homecoming, surgical scrubs for lounging on sleepy days, a wide assortment of old concert tees, and, if you were lucky, bells, real bell-bottoms, not the back-again retro ones from the Delia's catalog but the actual thing, with wide flares, the denim tissue-thin at the knees from decades of wear.

Even the automobiles have an air of antiquity here.

Even the jukebox plays nothing but oldies, mostly

Sometimes I listen to '60s or oldies stations to see if they're going to play a Beach Boys song.

The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's.