Retro Quotes - Page 3

• It's rooted in things that maybe older people or people my age remember as being rock music. But at the same time, I don't think we're stuck in the past or retro. I think we've tried to push ourselves and experiment with what we can call Wilco music.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Thinking, Past, Rocks

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• There's something retro about the pop culture references in the paintings, so I'd imagine it's not as much a pop culture reference as a pop art reference.

  Joe Bradley

  Art, Culture, Painting

  Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 4, 2015.

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• I bought almost every single thing that I furnished my house with at the Salvation Army in Hawaii. All second hand. Some of them are kind of retro, and some of them you'd never know.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Army, Hands, House

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• So welcome 'Damsels in Distress,' an exhilarating gift of a comedy about college, the female intellect, the limitless male ego, inventing a new dance, and suicide prevention... This is the world as Stillman sees it, and to luxuriate for two hours in that retro bubble of sparkling wit is a pleasure not to be missed.

  Peter Travers

  Suicide, College, Two

  "Damsels in Distress" by Peter Travers, www.rollingstone.com. April 5, 2012.

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• [Boris]Johnson, [Nigel] Farage, they are retro-nationalists, not patriots. Patriots don't abandon ship when the going gets tough. They stay on board.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Boards, Ships, Tough

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• I'm sure in less than 10 years there will be several streaming services or whatever you want to call them that are dedicated to retro television, like rare retro television, and maybe we'll end up doing something with that. Maybe Gigi will find popularity there, because it was fun, it was kitschy and very stupid and very dirty. But it had heart. I hope people will watch it one day.

  David Krumholtz

  Fun, Stupid, Dirty

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I love to shop, especially in retro stores. I have about a million pairs of old-school sports shoes like Adidas, so that's probably my biggest vice.

  Carrot Top

  Sports, School, Shoes

  "Comic's haven is Orlando, but Cabo was heavenly". Interview with Jae-Ha Kim, www.chicagotribune.com. September 13, 2011.

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• In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad.

  Rob Sheffield

  Song, Loneliness, Boys

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