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I love the feeling of nostalgia vying with the present. That can be from song to song, or within the same song.
That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
'Make America great again,' is not that different from Putin's nostalgia for the Soviet Union or tsarist Russia.
A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.
In the poetry of immigrants, nostalgia is as common as confetti at parades or platitudes at political conventions.
I think whatever generation you're in has a nostalgia for the generations past and the generations you weren't in.
Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either
Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.
Nostalgia is the bane of rock 'n' roll. He had the courage to let it all hang out. ... He was a considerable talent.
I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
They remember when their parents went out there, had picnics on the Beck's Mill grounds. It was the nostalgia of it.
Nostalgia is a strange and powerful emotion. As much we try and fight it and fight ourselves, it's very hard not to.
It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back
Nostalgia has always been a key player in my songwriting cause within that space I find a great deal of inspiration.
I get emotional when young people get nostalgic about my work. That's why it's called nostalgia. Sometimes I even cry.
I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.
In 1960, it was still - no nostalgia here - an age when you could leave your door unlocked even in urban neighborhoods.
Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can't go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met.
To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self I once was.
Music can be a way for me to think back a lot of the time, almost like an opening into all the nostalgia I never express.
Escapism or nostalgia, for me, is not about having a terrible life and trying to get away via imaginary ideas or something.
I know part of nostalgia is romanticising the past, but I love doing things in a slower way, and the glamour of bygone eras.
The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.
Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, like emotional superheroes.
I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.
I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia.
I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.
Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.
I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine - you mourn things that actually happened.
Baking can be done with a few simple ingredients, so it's about simplicity and nostalgia - people are reminded of their childhood.
After having exhausted all the arguments on behalf of evil, one utters the creed's dictums with nostalgia rather than with fervor.
Nostalgia is a sweet place for a poet and writer to be in. But it's an indulgence; a distraction. You can't live in a distraction.
I stopped feeling nostalgia for the moment because I imagine myself looking back on it from the future, which really freaks me out.
I'm sick of '60s nostalgia. I've been to clubs in New York where it's just like the Fillmore East. And I thought I hated that then.
I still play my old vinyl LPs - I like the scratches - and I miss browsing in record shops, because they held great nostalgia for me.
The fall or scrapping of a cultural world puts us all into the same archetypal cesspool, engendering nostalgia for earlier conditions.
My brother and I have a profound nostalgia for our youth, and I think people need to come to terms with things leaving and being gone.
Music is nostalgia. We often connect to a song, to its lyrics, its tunes so much that it feels like we have known those songs all along.
It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in the past.
At times, my nostalgia for our family life as it used to be--for our own imperfect, cherished, irretrievable past--is nearly overwhelming.
Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?
As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth.
Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature and my love of film.
In 'Bombay-London-New York,' I speak of the ways in which the 'soft' emotion of nostalgia is turned into the 'hard' emotion of fundamentalism.
Gide says the hell of this life is that between a hundred paths we have to choose only one, and live with nostalgia for the other ninety nine.
It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's probably just an illusion.
The end of anything is not fun because there's a nostalgia to it and everything else. Even the end of a bad relationship can feel so, so, so sad.
Nostalgia is one thing. It's great to go and play the old songs. People know them and appreciate them. You got to give them what they want to hear.
I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took big money for nostalgia and became like an oldies act.