Vintage Music Quotes

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.

I remember hearing people like Joe Cocker, Fleetwood Mac, and Elvis. My parents were big fans of them, and they were the early seeds. My brother was more into Slipknot, and I still listen to them, too, but it wasn't until I listened to Paolo Nutini that it really clicked.

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

I love listening to old records. Stuff from the '70s, even disco and funk records and a lot of early rock albums - what's great about those recordings is that you can actually hear the true tones of the drums themselves.

I think somewhere in the back of my mind I've always wanted to make a whole swing album.

I like songs that sound like classics. There are songs that might be cooler or have better production, but I like songs that sound like they're timeless.

I don't use old music.

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.

It was only later on that I became more interested in older music.

Nat King Cole - I listen to him a lot.

I was brought up on listening to 78 rpm records from crooners to opera singers to solo piano players.

My music tastes are often 20 years behind.

The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.

I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.

I grew up I guess you'd say in the cassette era.

I love swing, jazz, blues, standards. I love the American songbook, Gershwin, Berlin. It's all that. So I'm born in the wrong era and I just don't fit into the 21st century at all.

I love Don Williams records. And old Ralph Stanley and Bill Monroe.

If you listen to 'Electric,' 'Entourage,' and 'Been With A Star,' all those records are records that I dug into the crates for to help me create that feeling of old funk. No one makes records like that anymore.

I love '50s music, all that stuff from the '50s.

I met all my heroes on the oldies circuit: Gary U.S. Bonds, Lloyd Price, Little Richard.

My parents were into The Mills Brothers, Perry Como, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Sarah Vaughn, and all those people sung the most wonderful songs - and even when I got into rock 'n' roll, that stayed with me.

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

Liz [Gillies] doesn't really listen to anything new, besides Adele, Ariana Grande, and stuff like that. She loves '70s music and old '60s songs. She loves songwriters from the '70s that I hate, like Jim Croce and James Taylor, and she loves Stevie Nicks and old jazz classics.

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it.

We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out.