1980s Quote by John Grant Download Open image “The 1980s were all about synths for me, and it never went away after that.” — John Grant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare 1980s About Away Me Never
I was always fascinated particularly with synths: how they looked and stuff that when you're a kid you're like this is the most incredible… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
I was never somebody who was a fan of synthesizers. When I was growing up, they were so overused in pop music, usually to… — Michael Penn Copy Share Image
I have the utmost respect for synthesizers - Soft Cell, early Depeche Mode. But that's become a cliche for the '80s. — Ariel Rechtshaid Copy Share Image
The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
I'm going in that direction rather than the 80's synth-pop direction where it's more obvious you're hearing a synthesizer. — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances. — Gary Wright Copy Share Image
I didnt develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances. — Gary Wright Copy Share Image
Synthesizers were looked at as stealing the soul of music, but then there were these new bands who used it to contradict that idea. — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
I've been collecting synths since the late '80s. They weren't very fashionable then, so you could pick up pretty cool stuff for a few… — Matt Berry Copy Share Image
My whole life, I've loved '80s synth and goth rock like The Sisters of Mercy and Depeche Mode. — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
A lot of the early Washed Out material was done on a couple of synthesizers that did most of the work, but that's the… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
I took to the synthesizer. My cousin had some synthesizers, and I'd always make stuff on those things. — Flying Lotus Copy Share Image
People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I keep showing… — John Grant Copy Share Image
The most horrifying thing I ever did was work as a steward on an airplane. I wanted to get hired by United. I thought,… — John Grant Copy Share Image
I have trouble with things like Facebook. It presents such a warped vision. I get sick of people's opinions about every little thing and… — John Grant Copy Share Image
I loved the whole New Romantic, New Wave thing... New Order, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode, Gary Numan, Blancmange, Yazoo. — John Grant Copy Share Image
'Ernest Borgnine' is sort of my version of Woody Allen's 'Purple Rose Of Cairo' in that it's about the occasional difficulty of coming to… — John Grant Copy Share Image
I feel uncomfortable when I think about my father listening to my records, because I don't want to hurt him. — John Grant Copy Share Image
I had never considered myself a political guy, but there are certain things I can't shut up about. When I hear people say things… — John Grant Copy Share Image
The thing is I don't feel like my story is special. I don't feel like it's different to anybody else. — John Grant Copy Share Image
I think the humor, when applied in the right amount, only serves to intensify the other emotions in a given song; it highlights them,… — John Grant Copy Share Image
I just feel like this guy who's visiting the music business over the weekend. Every time I write a song, I feel like it's… — John Grant Copy Share Image
“Everything worth knowing about the 1980s I learned from obsessively reading Bloom County collections when I was nine and Derek Jarman's diaries when I… — Ruadhán J. McElroy Copy Share Image
“Dilettantes,’ Art3mis said. ‘It’s their own fault for not knowing all the Schoolhouse Rock! lyrics by heart.” — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
“As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some of what… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Back in the 1980s, state-of-the-nation fictions were all set in Manhattan. Now, they're all in Trump country. Early in 'S-Town,' we're introduced to an… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
“Reading about Bordertown was the first time I saw people like me in speculative fiction. Messed-up kids, making messsed-up choices. I couldn't be a… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I remain extraordinarily proud of the Vaughan Williams symphonies I recorded with the LSO, and in the 1980s and '90s, I made an almost… — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
“Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In the mid 1980s, video games as an industry had lost its way a bit. Atari had collapsed. There was this widespread collective belief… — Bobby Kotick Copy Share Image
The movie 'Prema Geethangal' brought out the campus life in the 1980s whereas 'Ennalum Sharat' speaks from the 2017 perspective. — Balachandra Menon Copy Share Image
The downturn following the collapse of Japan's so-called bubble economy of the 1980s was not as severe as the Great Depression. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
