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Old Days Quotes

Nostalgia, memory, and the pull of simpler times

Some old days quotes lean into nostalgia, recalling the hiss of a cassette and the crackle of a record needle, while others insist nostalgia is misplaced, arguing that Good Old Days describes right now just as well.

The song 'Assassins Of Youth'... 'Assassins of youths' is what they used to call drugs in the old days when they first started the anti-drug campaign. And it's kind of an anti-drug record.

Quotes by Wayne Static

The good old days are now.

Quotes by Tom Clancy

It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.

Quotes by T Bone Burnett

I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.

Quotes by Serj Tankian

Back Quotes

I feel like I'm always having to justify why I haven't kept in touch with anyone from the old days in Stoke-on-Trent, but I'm like that with anybody. I don't let anybody in. I just rely on myself.

Quotes by Robbie Williams

In the old days, when a star left a still-thriving hit show, they'd celebrate by killing him or her off. But 'The Office' dispatched Michael Scott in a crueler and more final way: they made him normal. Since we're talking...

Quotes by Rob Sheffield

In the old days, you cut out a scene that might've been a really great scene, and no one was ever going to see it ever again. Now, with DVD, you can obviously... there's a lot of possibilities for scenes...

Quotes by Peter Jackson

When it comes to jobs, President Obama makes the Jimmy Carter years look like good old days. If we fired Jimmy Carter then, why would we rehire Barack Obama now?

Quotes by Paul Ryan

There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.

Quotes by Pat Oliphant

Days Quotes

It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.

Quotes by O. Henry

Every small boy wanted to be a steam engine driver when they grew up in the old days, including me. There's something very special about them - the noise, the smell, the steam coming out everywhere.

Quotes by Michael Bond

We cannot think of the old days when we were dealing with SARS. It's a totally different ballgame now.

Quotes by Margaret Chan

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

Quotes by Manuel Puig

In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth.

Quotes by Levi Strauss

Good Quotes

It's unfortunate that you don't see the loyalty from management to players and players to management like we used to see in the old days.

Quotes by Kevin Johnson

I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days.

Quotes by Kabir Bedi

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.

Quotes by Johannes Brahms

I still like the stuff from the old days: Marvin Gaye, Donnie Hathaway.

Quotes by Joe Cocker

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.

Quotes by Henri Poincare

Good Old Days Quotes

I'd prefer to do the safari on foot, like they did in the old days and just take the camp with you, not driving around in 4WDs.

Quotes by Glenn McGrath

Frequently Asked Questions

What do old days quotes generally say?
They balance nostalgia for the past with the idea that this era itself could be the one worth remembering fondly.
Is there a quote arguing against nostalgia?
Yes, one speaker says they're simply not inclined to dwell on rosy memories of the past, favoring the present instead.
Do any quotes mention old recording technology?
Yes, one recalls an era of analog recording noise on tape and vinyl, and the constant effort to make records sound louder.
Is there a quote connecting old slang to music?
One traces a song title back to old-days slang once used during an early anti-drug campaign.
What's a hopeful old days quote?
One simply states that this very moment counts as the good times, reframing nostalgia as something worth creating today. See Good Old Days quotes for more.

One line even traces how an old slang term traveled into a modern record, a reminder of how far Back memory can stretch. See Days quotes too.