80s music sounds so 80s now. But in the 80s, it just…

“Melancholy", I repeated. I liked the way it sounded, like there was music hidden somewhere inside it. Kate Di Camillo, Because of Winn Dixie”

— Kate Di Camillo

Certainly my parents were very political, so the whole Berlin Wall thing - and being a kid of the '80s - that's just something…

— Miriam Shor

We didn't understand irony yet in the '80s; we just kind of existed at face value, so there was no nerd cool yet because…

— Chris Hardwick

Comedy is like music; it builds on itself. Once someone comes up with a theory or a different way of doing things, people start…

— Doug Stanhope

I suppose I was lucky to be born in a time where I was in my early '20s in the '80s. It was just…

— Paul Young

I grew up in South Central Los Angeles in the '80s, back when it just wasn't a cool scene. But my mother had the…

— Kehinde Wiley

The '80s just had this sense of outrageous fun coupled with great stories and characters. Then there's the practical effects and buckets of gore…

— Neil Marshall

I often put any project I write in a different decade just to roll the thought around in my head. There's a thriller I've…

— Joel Edgerton

You know the 80s music is something that no one wants to admit liking, but once then start playing everyone is into it.

— Royce Gracie

I mean what I love more than anything is Jerry Goldsmith's 80s music and Bernard Herrmann's genre music from the 50s and 60s.

— Bear McCreary

It seemed like, in the early '80s, there was just a moment where there was suddenly no specific notion of what a rock band…

— Bucky Pope

It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting…

— Jim Jarmusch

With 'Space Dandy,' you've obviously got your image of the space and 80s music, and blending them together is how I created it.

— Shinichiro Watanabe

I mean, the thing about Guns N' Roses was that it wasn't trying to attach itself to the '80s, or anything that had to…

— Slash

The '70s and '80s were just the period during which the best soul music was created and the best records were done.

— Don Cornelius