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Quotes About Retro

I watched 'I Love the '80s' on VH1.
~ Hayley Orrantia
What I know of Hawaii is from watching the 'Brady Bunch' shows from the seventies.
~ Michael Bastian
I play music the way it was played in yesteryear.
~ Compay Segundo
Old fashions please me best.
~ William Shakespeare
The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum
~ Dean Cavanagh
I wear modern... vintage.
~ Lucky Blue Smith
I only wear vintage clothing. I'm pretty obsessed with things in the '60s, like fashion and music, too.
~ Melanie Martinez
I like styling girls that don't normally dress in vintage clothes and don't normally wear red lipstick; I like seeing those kind of girls restyled in a retro way.
~ Dita Von Teese
I love and admire the American culture and the American dream. I learnt so many things about the American shoe industry and marketing strategies. I caught the secrets of American casual wear, that is elegant and wearable, retro and modern, and mixed it with an Italian touch, luxurious and handmade.
~ Diego Della Valle
I am really into color and bright clothing. When I'm wearing heels, I always like to throw some different colors into my outfit, so it doesn't match. That gives my look a retro and funky feel.
~ Leah LaBelle
In '87, I was about 9 years old, and so at that point I was wearing, like, fluorescent green T-shirts and acid-wash jeans and leg warmers, and my hair was in a ponytail with a scrunchie and I had the teased bangs that were up in a rainbow shape. It was crazy.
~ Malin Akerman
My style is a little '70s and classic old Hollywood. I incorporate a lot of vintage, bohemian blouses paired with a good wedge.
~ Mary Helen Bowers
I love nostalgic pop music. The '80s especially, to me, is the greatest era of songs. I just love the '80s so much.
~ Kim Petras
I am generally a nostalgic person and super into the pop culture that I grew up on - I've got a framed ALF poster above my bed and a Mickey Mouse poster, and I've got this big VHS collection.
~ Kyle Mooney
I skipped N64, but I got it later when I was older. I got Game Cube first, then N64 after that actually.
~ Beth Phoenix
Any brand that attempts to live off a retro appeal is only going through a short second life cycle.
~ Christie Hefner
As a kid, when the neighbors were out playing street hockey or tackle football, my friends and I were in my basement with the NES/SNES.
~ Kenny Omega
Maybe one day we'll all be Steampunks
~ Jeff Vandermeer
It was probably the stupid glasses. How were you supposed to see anything wearing mirrored sunglasses underground? Any they were so nineties, they weren't even retro yet.
~ Eoin Colfer
The land of the 45rpm record is the land of chaos.
~ Andrew Cartmel
In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad.
~ Rob Sheffield
I am quite prehistoric, absolutely prehistoric.
~ Eduardo Galeano
I am not a big fan of going to malls. I am pretty old-fashioned that way.
~ Tahir Raj Bhasin
There's a sort of eternal, indefinable 20th century quality to 'BTAS.' We never really pegged the decade, but it's anytime in the 20th century, so I often harkened back to things from the '40s or '50s.
~ Paul Dini