80s Quote by Akon

It's time for artists to take their music back.

— Shelby Lynne

The music industry has changed so much.

— Sisqo

Audiences tend to dig the earlier stuff by any given musician, and the artists themselves always tend to prefer the thing that they're doing…

— Bradford Cox

It was the case in the 70s and 80s that people believed music could change the world. But now people aren't making music because…

— Sinead O'Connor

Music has a way where it moves, regardless of the genre, to progress.

— Koffee

We want to return to an era when we think music was better basically but still infuse it with something modern.

— Kemp Muhl

The whole music industry has completely and totally changed from how it was. It's very, very different. When we started, there were loads of…

— Susan Ann Sulley

Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and…

— Gary Wright

Now that the generation that grew up on '80s indie-rock has attained influential positions in the culture, that music is the new yardstick. And…

— Michael Azerrad

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

People are not able to just make music anymore; we have to do things that don't necessarily make the art any better. But that's…

— Flying Lotus

There are people who will always want the genre, whatever it is, to stay traditional, to stay what it was like when you were…

— Thomas Rhett