Quotes About Retro

Shooting in Brooklyn is like opening a time capsule. Nothing has changed. Everything looks like it did in the eighties.

I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don't even have a push-button radio. It's just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM. One knob makes it louder, and one knob changes the station. When you're driving, that's all I want.

When I was little, we used to have Atari.

In the late '80s and early '90s, there was a slightly retro drum sound that was popular in hip-hop music called the 808 bass drum sound. It was the bass drum sound on the 808 drum machine, and it's very deep and very resonant, and was used as the backbone as a lot of classic hip-hop tracks.

The politics that enter the university are those that come from history, a retro politics, emptied of substance and legalized in their superficial exercise.

La politique qui entre à l'université est celle qui sort de l'histoire, c'est une politique rétro, vidée de sa substance et légalisée dans son exercice superficiel, aire de jeu et terrain d'aventure (…)

When I was growing up in the eighties, there was a real nostalgic streak for the fifties. Look at 'Back to the Future.'

I grew up in the '90s, so I've definitely resurrected many looks from my youth lately, including overalls, jelly shoes, and, of course, Doc Martens.

I am fond of lovely old words like 'locomotive'.

In the '70s, everything shone as bright as brass.

What's more, I live in Berkeley, California. If princesses had infiltrated OUR little retro hippie hamlet, imagine what was going on places where women actually shaved their legs!

Bryl-cream, a little dab will do you.

I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's. But I like looking like I came out of a fairy tale.

There's something retro about the pop culture references in the paintings, so I'd imagine it's not as much a pop culture reference as a pop art reference.

As a person, I'm just really kitchy and corny, and I love '70s variety shows.

I'm totally, totally into old Vegas.

I like the Suncoast so much. It is miles from the Strip. It reminds me of the old Vegas atmosphere when things were a little more personal.

It's in the vein, somewhere in a cross between The Beatles, Cheap Trick, The Stones, Badfinger, you know, but it's not retro at all. But it is very pop.

Remember the diner in 'Happy Days?' I do want to do a show like that. But an updated version.

I had a hunch she was American. It was the retro bike. Chrome and turquoise, it had fenders as wide as a Chevrolet's, tires as thick as a wheelbarrow's, and appeared to weigh at least a hundred pounds. An expatriate's whim, that bike. I was about to use it as a pretext for starting a conversation when the train stopped again.

She looked like a photograph from a hundred years ago.

I am stuck in the 70's. I can't seem to get away from that era.

I kind of feel stuck in the late-Sixties and early-Seventies.

My studio is fully analog. There's nothing modern. There's not even a computer in my studio.