Quotes About Retro

I grew up playing the games, man, back when it was just Nintendos and Sega Genesis.

'Grease' is an awesome movie. I wish they'd make a new one, more for our time. The graphics are terrible when you look back on it.

I own 60 retro jerseys. I've got everybody - the late Derrick Thomas, a lot of people.

Everything in this town is retro, which accounts for the large supply of black vintage items in Accessories. The past is so much safer, because whatever's in it has already happened. It can't be changed; so, in a way, there's nothing to dread. She

I quite liked Sharkey and George and then there was a cartoon with rapper MC Hammer in it - Hammertime - I loved that cartoon, it was genius! They don't make cartoons like that anymore.

Some had Walkmen

If you Google a list and just see all the movies that came out in 1984, they're classics, and they define that decade.

I am an analog, slide-rule kind of guy.

I've always been a thrift store kid.

My personal style is a mixture of, like, girly, throwback, like retro '50s pin-ups, floral, like hippies, like anything feminine, and like flirty.

The Meatbats are a throwback band.

I have a home phone number, and I like it! It's like a throwback already.

Every basketball player wants to wear their team's throwback jerseys.

I really like the retro look. My regular clothing, I like to always keep it classy and I like to kind of be more dressed up more of the time. I'm not really someone you see in sweatpants a lot.

I miss Bettie Page. I've been missing her since the last time I photographed her in 1954.

My mum, a strange creature from the time when pickles on toothpicks were still the height of sophistication.

We were totally high and we had Quiet Riot play at our after-show party at the Dragonfly. I think we reunited them, just like we did W.A.S.P. We take sole responsibility for the return of retro heavy metal, and I'm ashamed. But

Retro's stomping ground isn't the auction house or antique dealer but the flea market, charity shop, jumble sale and junk shop.

Today, every principle of identity is affected by fashion, precisely because of its potential to revert all forms to non-origin and recurrence. Fashion is always retro, but always on the basis of the abolition of the passé (the past): the spectral death and resurrection of forms. Its proper actuality (its 'up-to-dateness', its 'relevance') is not a reference to the present, but an immediate and total recycling.

Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery.

I feel like Hawaiian shirts have definitely made a comeback.

For the longest time, people would say to me that I didn't feel very modern, that I seemed from another time.

Who doesn't love classic Destiny's Child or Ace of Base? There's so much amazing music from that time period, so it makes sense that we're starting to hear that pop up in records.

I tend to like antique things. Something can be old, but it can be timeless.