Retro Revival Quotes

I have seen everything possible covered in studs and grommets. Also, what I call angry shoes: those platforms with the multiple buckles and studs. I think the polished girl is back.

For young players, classic games are brand new. For others, they are a way to feel young again.

I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.

My fifth record is, in many ways, inspired by the hugely ambitious progressive pop records that I loved in my youth.

Remember the diner in 'Happy Days?' I do want to do a show like that. But an updated version.

I only wear vintage clothing. I'm pretty obsessed with things in the '60s, like fashion and music, too.

I think I'm one of the few people who have experienced New Jersey becoming fashionable twice in a lifetime.

As me being somebody that makes arguably nostalgic music, I cannot stand when somebody tries to make old music just to sound old.

It was a whole new attitude: no makeup, less is more... the '90s were fun!

What I did not want to be was a fad, because fads die. I had one of the George Michael Wham! neon-colored sweatshirts, and I thought it would never go out of style. Fads die.

The radio - this old piece of technology that's still crackingly current - gives you this communal experience in real time.

What smells strongly of crap to one generation - Victorian penny dreadfuls, the music of the Archies, the Lone Ranger radio show, blaxploitation films of the seventies - so often becomes a fruitful source of inspiration, veneration, and study for those to come, while certified Great and Worthy Art molders and fades on its storage rack, giving off an increasingly powerful whiff of naphthalene.

I do feel like the blogs that I follow share an aesthetic and draw a lot from '90s influences.

I really like the Nineties! I want to bring back more of the Nineties, like the 'Spice Girls', 'Empire Records', Chloe Sevigny. I don't think anyone really gave it enough credit.

There are an awful lot of bands out there doing our old act. An awful lot of fake moustaches and underwhelming performances.

You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.

It's like the mod thing is happening again.

I'm constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.

Trends have come and gone and they're coming back my way so I'm super excited about that.

I feel like I was supposed to be born in the '90s. Everything from that era needs to come back.

I always felt it was weird, that retro thing where guys showed up in zoot suits and tried to talk as if they were from some other time.

I hated the '80s for years, and now I look back and think, actually, there was something really cool about it.

Holy Joy were a cult '80s band led by the wonderful songwriting genius that is Johny Brown.

I get nonplussed by all the Fifties retro-revival aesthetic. Would we really want to be in our pinnies in our kitchen weeping? I find the kitchen, housewifey aesthetic repugnant.

There's a focus that hasn't been there for ages and ages and some American bands are sounding quite English like they did in the late 70s and early 80s.