Best Oldies Quotes

#1. If you start watching the oldies, you're in trouble. I feel ancient if "Grand Hotel" or "The Bride Wore Red" comes on. I have a sneaking regard for "Mildred Pierce", but the others do nothing for me.

Joan Crawford

#2. Science and technology have been embarrassed by two world wars, many smaller ones, and the spread of weapons that could destroy humanity. As a result, there is some loss of confidence in the great achievements of technology.

Thomas Keating

#3. I am the broth of love. Make soup to me.

Jarod Kintz

#4. I don't want to be an oldies act, kind of dragging around on the road just for the money.

Roger McGuinn

#5. He made slighting remarks about the committee's enforcement, and, well, rules is rules as the rules say someplace, or at least as all the oldies say they say.

N.D. Wilson

#6. Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they're full of muscle. 'Copacabana' sounds like it could have been released yesterday.

Barry Manilow

#7. I grew up on oldies like the Beatles and the Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin and The Who.

Drake Bell

#8. Blessed is the society that has oldies.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. I listen to oldies but goodies stations, '60s and '70s music.

Brian Wilson

#10. I hate it when bands do that; they're so proud of their new album, they have to play all of it and a couple of golden oldies.

Ville Valo

#11. New Wave art was the rage of the eighties. Now it's exhibited in oldies-but-goodies museums, usually in black-and-pink frames.

Brad Holland

#12. Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.

Steven Weinberg

#13. I listen to both oldies and contemporary stations. I enjoy listening to current stuff because there's an energy to it that's inspiring.

Carole King

#14. Market research shows that older women like seeing older women in ads, and that younger women do, too - because they see them and are not frightened of growing older.

Isabella Rossellini

#15. Kids don't see me as an oldies person when I go out on stage. They see me as an energy force.

Dick Dale

#16. I grew up listening to oldies, like Motown. That's from my mom.

Ryan Lochte

#17. Yet," suggested the secret voice which talks to us in our own hearts, "you are not beautiful either, and perhaps Mr. Rochester approves you: at any rate, you have often felt as if he did; and last night - remember his words; remember his look; remember his voice!

Charlotte Bronte

#18. The doo-wop stalker love song on a Cincinnati oldies station
you broke up with me because I was an obnoxious jerk and now you're dating him, so I drive by your house and stare in your window every night, thereby proving that I'm an even bigger creep than you thought

Sarah Vowell

#19. When I used to play nightclubs, you had to play Top 40 or favorite oldies that maybe people could relate to.

Rick Danko

#20. So many people mentioned this at these rallies. You go to these things and it's kind of like an oldies concert. I mean, it's not hostile.

George Saunders

#21. A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

Alexander Pope

#22. I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.

Nastassja Kinski

#23. I just wanna make sure that you don't miss out on the things in life that are happening when you're not thinking. Because believe me, those are the best things in life.

Colleen Hoover

#24. It's all about the smiles!

Emmy Swain

#25. He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#26. To keep your head. quit while you are ahead.

Kris Waldherr

#27. I figure the oldies are real close to what rocking country use to be.

Wolfman Jack

#28. Do you like eighties music, Nurse Willowes?" "Can we discuss the oldies another time?" "What? What? The oldies? I've already had a man kicking in my ribs, and now you pull out my heart." "Hey!

Joe Hill

#29. Dude," Austin said as we exited the freeway, "in fifty years, all of the old folks' homes are going to be filled with seniors listening to Justin Bieber on the oldies station and talking about how movies used to be in two-D.

Robyn Schneider

#30. I write whatever shows up. That's good enough for me. I'm part of the first generation that wants to still do original material and not tour around as an oldies act.

Lou Reed

#31. When I was a boy, I used to stay with a school friend in Bexhill, in Sussex, which was then well-known for being the town with more oldies than any other. Aged ten, I felt slightly embarrassed by this, though I'm not sure why.

Craig Brown

#32. Once you take a role, you have to do it properly and do it justice.

Tamsin Egerton

#33. Ms. Bennett, do you know who I am? I am not accustomed to being spoken to in such a manner.

Jane Austen

#34. We are sculptors finding ourselves in the evolution of choosing, not in the results of choice.

Sheena Iyengar

#35. I find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, out of nostalgia, and because I've always felt that we oldies can learn so much from them and draw from them inspiration in our flagging and rickety years.

F. Sionil Jose

#36. If you believe that your best years are behind you, you've guaranteed they are; I'm going to dance into that good night, with the oldies turned up loud.

Gina Barreca

#37. I want to go back to the format that radio started with rock n' roll, with country artists and rhythm and blues with that oldies type feeling. I want to put it all together and create a Top 40 of rhythm and blues and country and straight blues with Wolfman at the reins.

Wolfman Jack

#38. Even the jukebox plays nothing but oldies, mostly

James Patterson

#39. Sometimes I listen to '60s or oldies stations to see if they're going to play a Beach Boys song.

Mike Love

#40. Where did we get the idea that older folks need to be given a "kid-free" environment with other "golden oldies," and that men's groups and women's groups are more meaningful than the communion of saints?

Michael S. Horton

#41. I've heard of sweatin' to the oldies, but this was like drowning to the moldies." - Cher

Randi Reisfeld