Quotes About Oldies

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Rick Danko

#4. 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

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

Ryan Lochte

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

Dick Dale

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Brian Wilson

#12. Blessed is the society that has oldies.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Drake Bell

#14. 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

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

Roger McGuinn

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

Wolfman Jack

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

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

Nastassja Kinski

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

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

James Patterson

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

Mike Love

#26. 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

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

Randi Reisfeld

#28. 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

#29. Inspiration comes of working every day.

Charles Baudelaire

#30. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

Oscar Wilde

#31. Connection between life and radioactive nuclei is straightforward. No life without tectonic activity, without volcanic activity. And we know very well that geothermal energy is mostly produced by decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium.

Garik Israelian

#32. A world of wealth is trash if men are wanting; men who have no wealth never find fortune smiling as their strength deserves.

Aeschylus

#33. Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#34. How do you let others in when you can't even look in the mirror? The answer is, you can't. But hopefully by showing them that they are lovable, they will start to see the truth.

Rachel Van Dyken