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Quotes About Retro

Hollywood is in love with any kind of nostalgia that can prove itself to be commercial.
~ Dan Aykroyd
I fell in love with '50s hot-rod, pinup-girl culture.
~ Drake Bell
I wasn't sure if I wanted to try the retro style in the first place, because many musicians have left masterpieces in the genre, and I felt burdened by this.
~ Hyuna
I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!
~ Dirk Benedict
I've always wanted to live in the '60s and '70s and wear wide pants, knee high boots, and oversized denim jackets.
~ Astrid S
I use Wikipedia and eBay; I look for singles for my 1950s jukebox.
~ Lee Mack
I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's terribly retro. The plot needed to do what it needed to do. But I'm a little surprised to find myself looking a little bit like an advocate of teen marriage. It takes some exceptional circumstances for that to be a reasonable idea.
~ Nancy Werlin
The new, retro pants that are pulled up very high confuse me. I feel like I'm in the eighties. I wasn't even alive in the '80s, but if these pants are any indication of what it was like, I'm sure I wouldn't like that era.
~ Raymond Ablack
Old film-noir movies. There's something comforting about watching black-and-white movies, and hearing this kind of music just puts me in a fantasy world. It's a really great escape for me.
~ Petra Haden
I'm just a '70s freak.
~ Sinbad
I like the eyeliner and fringe '60s look, like Anna Karina.
~ Jeanne Damas
Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge Family records, plastic daisy jewelry, old postcards. . . . It's a magpie Christmas market.
~ Francesca Lia Block
My high-techness is pretty low-tech. I'm not wildly computer savvy. I'm a record person.
~ James Murphy
Me and my wife watch laser discs, and I collect old computers. And one of my regular models is a 1993 computer with Windows 98 on it. I just love old technology, and I don't know what you would call that. I'm just stuck in 1991, '92.
~ Shooter Jennings
I'm always watching old episodes of 'The Golden Girls' or 'The Simpsons.'
~ Colman Domingo
Tween programming is so retro that the shows even have theme songs, something the quest for more commercial time drove out of prime-time television years ago.
~ Jonathan Dee
The basic feeling around town was that one shouldn't get too hung up on the environment, feel too nostalgic for cleaner times, or be too retro; that wasn't what residents were 'supposed to feel.' That's because a fracking boom was on, and many new industries were on their way to Lake Charles to process the natural gas it freed from the cracked earth.
~ Arlie Russell Hochschild
I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.
~ Rob Zombie
I've been collecting synths since the late '80s. They weren't very fashionable then, so you could pick up pretty cool stuff for a few hundred quid.
~ Matt Berry
The funny thing is that the fashions from the '90s seem to sit so well with the fashions of 2016. Everything from then somehow skipped and came back.
~ Edward Enninful
'Kung Fury!' I mean, Jesus, that thing is amazing.
~ Kevin Bacon
I'm an old-timey gal.
~ Alaina Huffman
Dude, I've been a gamer ever since Intellivision.
~ Tony Todd
I've got Pacman, Galaga, Galaxian, Daytona 500. Those are the games I grew up playing.
~ Ray Lewis