Old Quotes

I don't cringe when I think of doing old material. A lot of the people have been with me through the years.

I've been collecting some more high-end guitars. I have an old Martin D28 from the '60s, a beautiful, classic Martin that I know I played on 'Mariachi.'

Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!

In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

You amaze me. You're 229 years old and that's what you think is funny.

You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me.

Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space, but when you return, it's the same old place.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

I'm much too young to feel this damn old.

Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.

The day I retire is the day I'll feel old. I'm not there yet.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

I've told so many lies about my age I don't know how old I am myself.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

I know one day I'll be considered too old.

We're like old people now playing music. I'm so glad we stuck it out because it's a lot better. I used to feel kind of anxious. Now our apprenticeship is over.

I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start making generalizations about how bad things have become in comparison to the old days.

The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

I hate flatscreens. I don't want to see anything in that much pixilation. I don't need to see the pimple on someone's face. I love the world through glass. The more old, dusty and tainted that glass is, the prettier and more impressionistic that is to me. I don't need to see everything perfectly. I don't like it.

I'm like an old dog, I hate to be run off from home.

Well, in the sense that we do not tour or record together anymore - then I suppose not. But if our old recordings get heard more we shall be delighted.

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.