The 80s Quotes

Folks in their 60s and 80s are reinventing how older people live.

Most people found out about Slint in the mid or late 90s, but we were an '80s band. We started in 1986 and broke up at the end of 1990.

My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the "natural" order of things in the history of post war NY painting.

I love Steven Wright. I was in high school in the '80s, and there was a lot of stand up on television.

Mobile notifications put people in a state of perpetual emergency interruption - similar to what 911 operators and air traffic controllers experienced back in the '70s and '80s.

I did love horror films from the '70s and '80s. That was my sweet spot.

I've always been a fan of 3D, going back to movies in the '50s. I was part of the early '80s 3D craze, which was coming at you in Jaws 3D, so I've always wanted to make a 3D film.

I think in the late '80s and early '90s horror was dead.

I mean, I do consider that my music is pop because Ive been influenced by pop music my whole life; I grew up in the States and 80s pop music was my biggest influence.

I do think homophobia in the '80s was more rampant and socially acceptable.

The Simpsons was pretty experimental at the time, but it attracted a lot of sitcom writers that felt confined by the limitations of live-action sitcoms in the '80s.

I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.

I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.

Remember the guy in the 80s walking around with a boombox on his shoulder? Why'd he do that? Because it told a story about who he was. Expressing yourself is big business.

A lot of journalists say, "Tell us about the '80s." Nobody wants to know about the '70s!

I produced six movies with Amy Robinson since the very early 80s.

I was born in the '80s, so I don't really remember it very strongly, but the music is so iconic.

I think anyone that grew up in the '70s and '80s grew up with Bob Barker and Wink Martindale and I think that was just always... when you were a game show host, you were the man of the hour.

The simplest way to do something cool is the cross-turn. Like in the '80s - Michael Jackson did it. You jump and cross your legs together at the same time, and then spin out of it. That's it.

I was an avid reader of futurists during the 1970s and '80s. They were so wrong - about everything.

In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period.

The '80s was wild compared to my real small childhood, which was late '70s.

If you think the ’80s were dumber than the ’70s, either you weren’t there or you weren’t paying attention.

On the other hand, even a big, '80s love van was less noticeable than six flying kids and their talking dog. So there you go.

I remain a fan of my friend Bret Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho.' I think as a book about New York in the '80s it was pretty excellent.

To project your idea, you have to use new technology. It's not like the '70s or the '80s; you have an image that you project globally.

The real question is how do you stay funny in your 70s and 80s? And that's a real accomplishment, you know, the longevity.

I was the original voice of Mattels Barbie for an 80s claymation workout video.

The coming cooling of the planet overall will return it to where it was in the '60s, '70s, and '80s.

There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along.

When I was a kid growing up in the States in the late '70s and early '80s, as soon as 'Dallas' came on on a Friday night on CBS at 9 P.M., we stopped everything from that moment on as a family.

The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.

I remember the '80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time.

Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.

I grew up in southern California in the 80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.

There were a lot of great things you could go and hear for very little money at the time [ '80s]. Mike Stern is still playing at the 55 Bar on Mondays or Wednesdays.

There are a lot of people that impacted me. I remember hearing Oscar Peterson live at the Blue Note, which was very expensive, but... $50 in the '80s... hard to come up with. But it was amazing.

I think the media needs a little criticizing now, as it did in the '80s, don't you?

My biggest successes were mainly in the pop market during the 80s.

But trust me, if I lived in the '80s, I would definitely be the one going to the record stores.

Well, what I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies.

If I had been living through the '80s, I probably would've gotten into a lot more trouble than my parents.

The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.

I grew up reading crime fiction and, especially in the '80s, women were just there to be saved or screwed.

Having a separate bathroom for the black domestic was just the way things were done. It had faded out in new homes by the time the '70s and '80s rolled up.

I think I take my style from all walks of life, and all generations and decades of life as well. I love mixing '50s with '80s and classic with punk.

I'm in general a nostalgic person, but I don't know if I'm nostalgic for the 80s!

I grew up reading SF in the 70s and 80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.

Everybody's still in the 70s and 80s musically, still making remakes.

And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.