I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.
While I occasionally enjoy a bout of nostalgia, I would generally rather dream forward than backward.
I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.
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.
War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.
For a gut punch of nostalgia, consider that Saturday morning cartoons are now largely a thing of the past.
I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like 'Midnight in Paris.' Nostalgia isn't so enticing.
Baking can be done with a few simple ingredients, so it's about simplicity and nostalgia - people are reminded of their childhood.
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.
Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.
The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia.
Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
After having exhausted all the arguments on behalf of evil, one utters the creed's dictums with nostalgia rather than with fervor.
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.
I know part of nostalgia is romanticising the past, but I love doing things in a slower way, and the glamour of bygone eras.
As far as my personal nostalgia zone goes, I find I watch more of AntennaTV than anything else.
Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either
I remember the old Times Square from when I was younger, and there was a seedy thrill to it. Some of that is gone, which I have a little bit of nostalgia for.
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.
Children who were very truly pious in a Catholic childhood are apt to retain a nostalgia for the absolute.
Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can't go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met.
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.
We all know the sound a camera makes when it snaps a picture. Even some of the digitals do it for nostalgia’s sake.
People gravitate towards their own era, nostalgia therapy is a real thing that's being tinkered with.
We're afraid to move on, that's why there's so much nostalgia on the internet... 'cause we don't wanna look forward, that's scary.
There's too much rock that relies a fetishism or nostalgia for the old ways. That's a real enemy to music.
Nostalgia for dead tyrants and the longing for heroes are unhealthy, and they can result in the deification of a Saddam as easily as a Havel or Mandela.
For me to be able to experience Paris for the first time with Chanel was a dream come true. I loved the nostalgia of it all.
Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.
When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness.
Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.
I think it's necessary to keep moving forward. I've always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.
Nostalgia wouldn't begin to capture your sense of loss, ... The Way We Really Are Coming to Terms With America's Changing Families.
Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, like emotional superheroes.
When you're a young person, the solace one can get from popular music is something I just have tremendous nostalgia for, affection for. I still have it.
Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with glorious misery.
I just really gravitate towards a nostalgia for a time when things were simpler. When beauty was more classical and glamorous.
The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable 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 fall or scrapping of a cultural world puts us all into the same archetypal cesspool, engendering nostalgia for earlier conditions.
When we are young... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly prize years from now.
Escapism or nostalgia, for me, is not about having a terrible life and trying to get away via imaginary ideas or something.
Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.
Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now.
If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.
Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.
Unconsciously, I think I watch for a look, an expression, features or nostalgia that can summarize or more accurately reveal life.
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.
The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.
'Make America great again,' is not that different from Putin's nostalgia for the Soviet Union or tsarist Russia.
Nostalgia has always been a key player in my songwriting cause within that space I find a great deal of inspiration.
I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia.
I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you can get caught up in it.
I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like “Midnight in Paris.” Nostalgia isn’t so enticing.
When I go on a nostalgia trip it's not aesthetic. For me it's about trying to recapture the smell or the feeling of something that I've experienced in the past personally.
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.
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
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.
In 1960, it was still - no nostalgia here - an age when you could leave your door unlocked even in urban neighborhoods.
We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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