Retro Quotations

Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.

I don't think they'll ever make a retro Bond.

Everybody trusted Cronkite because he reminded them of their favorite uncle or trusted family physician. Being square in the age of the Beatles made Cronkite retro cool.

Reading is what people did before YouTube, and I love retro stuff!

I like styling girls that don't normally dress in vintage clothes and don't normally wear red lipstick; I like seeing those kind of girls restyled in a retro way.

We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.

I'm sitting at home every time there's a Grammy. It's like, 'What is Sharon doing tonight?' I'm sitting home watching it. But it's OK. But if you go to Europe, there are a lot of young, independent labels that's doing soul music. You might call them retro because they're young and they're trying to imitate somebody. But I ain't retro.

It's in the vein, somewhere in a cross between The Beatles, Cheap Trick, The Stones, Badfinger, you know, but it's not retro at all. But it is very pop.

In the late '80s and early '90s, there was a slightly retro drum sound that was popular in hip-hop music called the 808 bass drum sound. It was the bass drum sound on the 808 drum machine, and it's very deep and very resonant, and was used as the backbone as a lot of classic hip-hop tracks.

We're going to run some split back veer and power stuff. It's kind of a retro look for us.

What they've done here is incredible. They kept the Frank Lloyd Wright facade. And they kept a great number of guest rooms the same. They redid everything, of course, but when they built hotels in 1956 they built big guest rooms. They kept the concrete block and just put in the new retro stuff. Even when I was here the historical society was constantly visiting, wanting to know what we were doing and wanting to make sure we kept the place intact.

We're able to do it a little different. Not too many bands sound like the early new wave of (Elvis) Costello and the Cars. This is our contribution to the whole new, retro revival.

Retro looking stuff but a lot of these guys doing these shows are my age or younger. I was just disgusted. I hated being around that kind of thing. Not that it affected what I did because when it comes down to it I was doing my own show.

Retro is one of the biggest retail trends of 2005. We have seen it in clothes and music; now it's the turn of confectionery to delve back in time.

If we retro this, we could get him back sooner, rather than make a mistake and put him out there now and have him aggravate it.

I'd just call it modern music done in a retro way, that's all.

It is a curious thing about Spam that in the Far East, it is taken very seriously, while in the United States, particularly on college campuses, it has this quirky, kitschy retro feel to it,

I think there's something cool and retro about them.

Some people are having orange dresses made; some are wearing retro orange dresses or orange jackets.

We were really looking for a fresh sound, and I think you can hear that with the use of electronics on the record, ... It makes it fun to play loud music without it being a retro thing at all.

There could be a retro comeback because of the kitsch factor.

Bringing back some of these styles and retro looks is absolutely brilliant.

I've been waiting to break them out but you can't do that before the first Retro Sunday.

I've never seen that level of retro pay. The whole notion of retro pay is a relatively new issue for the airline industry.

I've always liked that retro sound. It takes you back to the days of big, fast cars with tail fins. My wife (Liz) and I always try to see the Rev. when he is in a nearby city.

This is the record we always wanted to make. It has a great blend of modern rock heaviness with retro sounds and styles. It is the perfect BRIDES record of today.

The Odyssey and Siena are hot products but they're hot in terms of ultimate-in-functionality and quality, they're not hot because they're stylish. The new VW retro minivan is likely to be hot on a more emotional level.

That's one of the fallacies at the end of the selection process, when you hear people say (the committee) didn't know. Believe me, there's nothing those people don't know. They know the first time you wear retro jerseys.

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It was a hodgepodge of retro fits and so they completely gutted it and rebuilt it.

It was like playing the Chicago Celtics. I like their uniforms. They look good, and they play good in their retro uniforms, too. Our retro uniforms don't work too good for us.

It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?

Ex-anything is very sad to me. I don't want to be a retro artist. That scares me.

The metro camp is trying very hard to commemorate Rabin and do as many things as possible to mention his name, call new places and streets by his name, and preach his legacy. The retro are trying to negate all that. They're saying it's a not a trauma at all.

I don't know if England lags behind the States or is ahead of the States. We've finished with the '70s retro chic revival, we've done the '80s retro-chic revival and on to the '90s.

To do then now would be retro. To do then then was very now-tro, if you will.

The industry is not yet done with the retro trend,

I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the Mortal Engines series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future.