Ciara Quotes

I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.

I'm a little old-fashioned.

Willie Nelson is the perfect person, it seems to me, to think about. Because something tells me that he operates on his own frequency.

I'm old-school, and that's just how I am. It's in my DNA.

My cousin used to make fun of me for liking stuff like C+C Music Factory. I didn't have any tapes; I just liked their song on the radio. We liked that because that was what we had access to.

I've made no pretence to be a modern man at all, ever.

As a kid growing up in a lower-class neighbourhood, where everyone around me was listening to hip hop, what was I doing listening to new wave, and why was that my favourite music? I don't know why, but it just spoke to me.

I love history... everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.

You can't tell an 18-year-old to keep it down and turn off Britney Spears or whatever it is that they listen to.

Oh yah, I'm definitely an old rocker.

Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable.

When I was 16, I'd ping pong between AC/DC and Barry Manilow without any sense of irony.

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

When I was 19 or 20 and doing my thing, I can't sit here and say I had this strong political agenda - I was literally just being myself.

Probably from, like, 10 to 14 or 15, I would just listen to pop radio.

I will always consider myself a punk because of those experiences in high school. It will always be a part of me.

My first albums as a little kid were Elton John's 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,' Simon and Garfunkel's 'Greatest Hits' - and 'Workingman's Dead.' How many other people still listen to the music they liked at age 12?

You tell me what you listen to, and I'll tell you who you are.

I think a lot of people who become music fans have that moment where they break from their parents' music, they break from the radio and MTV - at least in my generation, they did, and MTV isn't really a thing anymore. And you discover something that defines you, that is outside of the mainstream.

All the music I listened to in high school that I loved and that moved me wasn't the same music other kids were listening to in school. I got into punk rock and new wave, then dub and hip-hop.

I'm such an old-fashioned lady.

I'm an old school guy.

Whether people think I'm old fashioned, I don't care. I've always been very comfortable in my own skin. I've never been a brandist, I don't use words like philosophy, that sort of stuff isn't for me.

I like movies and radios and Bruce Springsteen and New Jersey. That's what I like, and if people don't like that, well, literally you can go on iTunes, and there's hundreds of other bands you can listen to.

I was a bit of a loner at school because I was into what I was into, that sort of scene; that is where the whole mod thing started, when I was 14-15.