Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes

I'm an old-timey gal.

I do like the word timeless. That's a great word.

Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

I like to do things that are classic.

Without a reunion, the Eagles are forever young, like James Dean.

I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.

The truth is the Vintage Vitor never left.

Not everybody has things that become classics.

I've always loved people that's been around for a long time, like old shoes.

To me, when something is classic, whether it came out today or thirty years ago, it falls all in the same pot.

There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.

I was always attracted to the past as a kid.

I've been told I'm an old soul, but I'm only 25. I have the old with the new in me, and my house reflects that.

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

I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.

It has a really timeless feel.

I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was never enough in fashion that I had to be replaced by something new.

Good comedy is ageless.

H. Schwarzenbach is a very traditional place. The store opened in the late 1800s, importing specialty items from all over the world. It was curated before we even used that word.

Vintage is my vocabulary... like the notes of a musician.

I'm an old-school guy.

From the 1920s through to the 1970s, bridal was related to the fashion of the times. Then in the 1980s, it became more historical, decadent, and ornate.

The idea of creating a quote-unquote 'retro' world isn't all that appealing to me by itself.

To me, a Harris Tweed jacket is the kind of thing you should be able to have in your closet years from now - possibly it was your father's jacket or, even better, your grandfather's jacket.