Eric Clapton Quotes

But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.

I don't use old music.

I was such a punk.

I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur.

I hate the word 'hippy'. I hate a lot of people, and hippies don't do that!

Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

I listen to old music, man.

You can't be a punk all your life.

I use Wikipedia and eBay; I look for singles for my 1950s jukebox.

I'm not one of those freaks who can't see anything past 1977.

I still play my old vinyl LPs - I like the scratches - and I miss browsing in record shops, because they held great nostalgia for me.

I love retro culture. I love retro games; I love retro music.

I remember at school one day there was a vocabulary list on the chalkboard, and the word 'nonconformist' was on there, and it said, 'Someone that doesn't appeal to society, someone who doesn't fit in.' We had this whole conversation about it, and I realized it cohered to the punk-rock world that I was into.

I'm always doing everything backwards.

There's so many oldies stations with 'Never Ending Story' and 'Too Shy' on their playlists, thank God. People still love the songs.

Since nostaglia is fueled by inflation, could it be that inflation is the result of a conspiracy by the people who are trying to palm off McGovern buttons and Howdy Doody puppets and their Aunt Thelma's toaster as antiques.

To this day, whenever I'm in Milwaukee, which is often, I'm reminded that the people there still haven't gotten over the Braves leaving ... If it helps, they should know the players haven't either.

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

I listen to tapes a lot. I have a car that only (has a cassette player). I like the nostalgic factor.

Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move, And when this dust falls to the urn In that state I came, return.

The ’60s was the last time when large groups of people in the West searched for alternative modes of being. In a society like India’s, which is still not fully modern or totally organized, and has a great deal of tolerance for otherness in general, they find the cultural license to try other things, to be whatever they want to be.

Do you know the nicest thing about looking at pictures of a 1950's baseball park? The only people wearing baseball caps are the players.

I like a lot of old films, I like a lot old music, and a lot of it has to do with the fact that I like the idea of knowing what happens before, so that I can understand it.

People look to me to see what the spirit of the Seventies is.