80s Quotes
243 quotes by 213 authors
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First I did animation films, when I was young, in time-lapse. And then in the '80s I went directly to video. The main reason for…
— Pipilotti Rist
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I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop…
— Jessica Pare
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Excellence is THE trend of the '80s. Walk into any shopping mall bookstore, go to the rack where they keep the best-sellers such as Garfield…
— Dave Barry
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I've had production offers with artists I really admire, and oftentimes that doesn't work out. Sometimes it does, but... For instance I was asked if…
— Todd Rundgren
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I started buying records in the 80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to…
— Steven Sater
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When I was coming up in the '80s television, if you were on television that meant either you were a young actor just coming up…
— Billy Bob Thornton
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Television is making, there was in independent film renaissance late '80s through the mid-90's. It was an amazing time. Television is doing that right now.…
— Billy Bob Thornton
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The extent of my personal BMX adventures were all [on] dirt tracks. But just the aesthetic of it that early-to-mid-'80s BMX is something that's just…
— Matt Skiba
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I don't like to put tags on my music. I leave that to others. Seems like some people see me as the founder of "space…
— Hans-Peter Lindstrøm
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I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap…
— Noel Gallagher
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'The Simpsons' from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash '60s sitcoms - you had a main title theme that was bombastic…
— Matt Groening
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Certainly there are dozens of over-50 actresses who look great: Sophia Loren, Susan Sarandon, Ursula Andress, Stefanie Powers, Raquel Welch, Barbara Eden, Joanna Lumley, Linda…
— Joan Collins
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My granddad was an evangelist, and my grandma, she was as tough as nails. She watched 'American Bandstand' every day when she was in her…
— Alice Cooper
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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,…
— John Cusack
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Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through…
— John Cusack
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I'm definitely nostalgic about the music of my youth; The Clash and Fishbone and that whole music scene. I still have all that music to…
— John Cusack
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I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I was of the…
— Junot Diaz
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I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call 'living in the…
— Junot Diaz
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For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She's a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the…
— Beth Ditto
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It's nice to have been around long enough to be a part of people's lives. A lot of people who come to my show are…
— Sheena Easton
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