Best Oldies Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Cat's friends seemed like very sweet girls," Dad says. "They were the bomb," I say fervently, and he looks back at me with raised eyebrows. "'The bomb' is a good thing? Like 'sick'? "Duh," I reply, and Dad lets out a sigh. "Thirteen-year-olds should come with subtitles," he says, turning onto our street.”

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Book:Scheme Spirit

Source: Scheme Spirit

“I figure the oldies are real close to what rocking country use to be.”

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Author:Wolfman Jack

“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.”

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Book:Lou Reed: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

Source: Lou Reed: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

“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.”

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Author:Joan Crawford

“I used to listen to music from the frosting down. As a word nerd, lyrics are really important to me, and then the melody. Playing in the Rock*A*Teens was the first time I ever heard music from the bottom up. I was hearing songs I'd heard a million times on oldies radio, and I'd be like, "Wow, listen to what the bass is doing!" When I was first singing in bands, I'd just get out there with my machete, wildly whacking away at the foliage. But you learn how to listen. When I feel I'm doing it right, it's 90% listening and 10% output. It's not "look what I can do!"”

“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.”

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Author:George Saunders

“I'm listening to a lot of oldies.A lot of Al Green, Marvin Gaye. Luther Vandross... they were some of my icons.”

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Author:Kendrick Lamar

“God is forever using especially young people, not oldies like us, God likes using young people.”

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Author:Desmond Tutu

“Music was just played all around me, and I couldn't run from it. My pops, he never learned to sing, but he'd have his little drink on the side, and he'd put on the best of his hits - gangster rap or oldies - and he'd sing all day on his mic plugged up to the wall set-up. It's a trip. I've just seen that my whole life, so I've always just had a love for music. By the time I was 13, I really just jumped in it. And it's something I took on to have as a hobby.”

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Author:Kendrick Lamar

“So every time I make a new circuit, a new time around, then I change the show. You can't change the songs; people still want to hear "Lady Sings the Blues" and they still want to hear some of the oldies.”

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Author:Diana Ross

“I'm more of an oldies guy. I'll say this - Michael Jackson, best entertainer of all time. Luther Vandross, best male singer of all time. Whitney Houston, best female singer of all time...and when Teddy Pendergrass says turn off the lights, turn 'em off. That's what I got for you.”

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Author:Russell Wilson

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

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Author:Ryan Lochte

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

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Author:Brian Wilson

“Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.”

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Author:Yoko Ono

“Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems”

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Author:Billy Joel

“Well, yeah! Now they're considered golden oldies, which is awesome. I was watching Little Women recently, and I didn't want to get up for fear of missing something. And Heathers is like my own Rocky Horror Picture Show; I recite the lines when it's on. It may seem odd, but I think it's because they're really good movies.”

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Author:Winona Ryder

“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.”

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Author:Barry Manilow

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

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Author:Carole King

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

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Author:Nastassja Kinski

“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.”

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Author:Ville Valo

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

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Author:Rick Danko