Believe Quote by Roisin Murphy

It was easy for people to be derisive about our music because they saw what we were doing as retro. But we were like…

— Eric Carmen

I wasn't sure if I wanted to try the retro style in the first place, because many musicians have left masterpieces in the genre,…

— Hyuna

If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that…

— Nate Ruess

It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre to me.

— Damien Chazelle

I wasn't always totally interested solely in music as a sort of visceral expression of people in unison and synchronized, a federated expression of…

— Oneohtrix Point Never

Electronic music was just discovery about sound, all our sound options. The core percussions and melodies, they forget about it, they didn't think about…

— Patrick Watson

I don't think the music that I do is nostalgic in any way; I don't think about going back to nice, old-fashioned music. I'm…

— Imelda May

That era in the late '80s through the '90s was really when the music was so new, fresh, energetic, but still creative. It hadn't…

— Terry Gross

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

— Bob Dylan

As a band, it's just me trying to please my own basement-hardcore sensibilities that I grew up with. It's not actually the future of…

— Geoff Rickly

I'm hugely inspired by the '60s and the '70s. I just love the music of that time and the overall freedom of that era.…

— Nicole Richie

I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what…

— Gary Numan