Nostalgic Quotes - Page 6

• And I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we're from, or when we do go back we're so nostalgic about it.

  Rosemarie DeWitt

  Thinking, Fantasy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.

  Adam Gopnik

  Autumn, Light, Games

  "Adam Gopnik on Food, Baseball, and The New Yorker". Interview with David Haglund, www.slate.com. November 7, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The theater itself is so archaic and old fashioned, that it doesn't really matter to me whether it's on Avenue D or at the Helen Hayes Theater. What's the difference? It's still a very nostalgic form. Also, it means you're knowingly walking into a room where there's actors. I feel it's very embarrassing. Because, you know, they're right there. You always think like, they can see you, and I think it's mortifying, frankly, and I hate to sit near the front, where you feel they actually might see you. It's too ... it's too live.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Hate, Mean, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• When we're afraid we shoot. But when we're nostalgic we take pictures.

  Susan Sontag

  1974 In the New York Review of Books,18 Apr.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't listen to punk any more, unless it's right before I play. Not that I don't like it, it's nostalgic. But, it's for kids and it should be it's not art, it's expression.

  Tom DeLonge

  Art, Kids, Expression

  20 Copy quote

• You can't live in the past, and I don't. I'm not nostalgic about my own work, at all.

  Elvis Costello

  Past, My Own

  "Interview about The Delivery Man". Interview with Brian Wise, www.elviscostello.info. April 10, 2004.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of psychological states; it may be a nostalgic glance backward; it may be any one of an infinite number of concepts, none of which may have any possible bearing upon its degree of newness.

  Ben Shahn

  Art, Numbers, Quality

  Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.101, Harvard University Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.

  Ian MacKaye

  Believe, Thinking, Important

  5 Copy quote

• We are so habitually nostalgic by now that we anticipate looking back in the midst of enjoyment, look forward to watching the videos we're taking of our children even as we make them.

  Deborah Tall

  Children, Video, Looks

  Deborah Tall (2016). “From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”, p.99, Syracuse University Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everybody talks about the entitlement generation. There is no time I'd rather live in than now, and there is no generation I would more entrust the future of this country to than this one. There is a tendency to live in a nostalgic state in this country, and to think that other generations possessed an integrity and a tenacity greater than the generation that is now. I wholeheartedly disagree with that. I believe that this is a group that will rise up to any challenge that comes before them as well as any other generation in America would have done.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Integrity, Believe

  6 Copy quote

• I'm totally not a nostalgic person. I always look to the future and as much as I've enjoyed the ride until now and the different phases, I'm more excited about the next music.

  David Guetta

  Different, Looks, Phases

  "Where Pop Music Meets Dance Music". Interview with Taryn Haight, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2011.

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• As for the Republicans -- how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, [and] steel their emotions against decent human sympathy.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Eye, Idlers, Lucky

  Letter to C.L. Moore (August 1936), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, p. 574,

  112 Copy quote

  Show source

• My landscapes are not only beautiful, or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful.' By 'untruthful,' I mean the glorifying way we look at Nature. Nature, which in all its forms is always against us, because it knows no meaning, no pity, no sympathy, because it knows nothing and is absolutely mindless, the total antithesis of ourselves.

  Gerhard Richter

  Beautiful, Mean, Way

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Feb 26, 2016

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• For a few years all I listened to was The Smiths, Things Fall Apart by The Roots, Love Is Dead by The Mr. T Experience, Nostalgic for Nothing by J Church, and the first Servotron album No Room for Humans. And that was it. For two or three years, those are the albums I listened to. I just fell into this very bizarre phase where my head shut down on me. I just obsessed over things and those albums happened to be in that rotation of me obsessing over things.

  Chris Gethard

  Fall, Love Is, Church

  Source: razorcake.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What the nostalgic past and the imaginary future seem to share in common is a form of idealism, perhaps a dream of wholeness. Our future is just as goopy with sentiment as our past. To me, they're the same, both very tempting, and I don't believe in either, although the idealism is probably important.

  Charles D'Ambrosio

  Dream, Believe, Past

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• For me, the music that resonates the most is one with a vision. I think that's what separates artists from entertainers. There are a lot of DJs and producers that make entertaining tracks that are effective in the club. They may make you feel nostalgic, or they may make you feel happy, or anxious or whatever - that can be entertaining, useful, and functional but there could be no vision.

  Galcher Lustwerk

  Artist, Thinking, Track

  Source: www.thefader.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think the essence of fashion is lightness, frivolity, and I'm very nostalgic for the time when Bérard was doing the windows, Cocteau was writing a play, Chanel did the costumes, Bérard did the sets. I don't have to tell you this, because Colette was the first to have revived the Rue St.-Honoré by precisely doing windows that attract people. And I really like that spontaneous spirit. And so, you're lucky to be with Colette, because it's a magic word.

  Ines de La Fressange

  Fashion, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm a nostalgic person and I really like rehashing and digging around the mental trunks.

  Feist

  Digging, Trunks, Persons

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I get nostalgic for things that didn't really exist. I might have a cassette from the first time a Melle Mel track, say, got played on radio in Manchester. And it might be a copy of a copy of a copy of a tape and there's all these weird nuances and distortions that have affected what I know as the truth, if you like, of that track.

  Rob Brown

  Track, Radio, Might

  "Autechre". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. February 18, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Jonathan Meese is not interested in the history of reality. Everything radical and precisely graphic is sustainable. Human ideologies like religions and politics are based on the past and therefore irrelevant to art. Art always transforms radicalism of the past into the future. Art is always the total time machine. Jonathan Meese is interested in the history of the future. Art is never nostalgic.

  Jonathan Meese

  Art, Past, Reality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• In a funny way, I like the past, I'm a very nostalgic person.

  Elle Fanning

  Past, Way, Persons

  "Interview: Elle Fanning, Nicolas Winding Refn on 'The Neon Demon'". Interview with Patrick McDonald, www.hollywoodchicago.com. June 22, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's funny: not only with the title of the album but also the song [It's Decided]. I kind of felt nostalgic. The beginning lyric is, "There's almost a sentimental feeling to another time," and when I got together with Kevin, he just absolutely, in his own fashion, just pushed me to go deeper than I usually would want people to know. That was the most difficult part for me was to bring someone in.

  Andy Kim

  Song, Fashion, People

  Source: www.popmatters.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not a nostalgic person. I'm not nostalgic about much of anything.

  John Mellencamp

  Persons

  "Mellencamp's independent stand". Chicago Tribune Interview, articles.chicagotribune.com. November 19, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Angel Olsen

  Player, Car, Tape

  "Angel Olsen is in complete control". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, www.chicagotribune.com. September 21, 2016.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our nostalgic dreams of perfection thrive just as dangerously in the other direction too, in the imaginary future, that bold and tantalizing future where the troubles of today will be cured by a tomorrow, and all our losses will be recouped, our problems solved, our lives restored, our people made whole again, etc.

  Charles D'Ambrosio

  Dream, Loss, People

  "Loitering: A Conversation with Essayist and Author Charles D'Ambrosio". Interview With Chris Schluep, www.amazonbookreview.com. February 3, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source