Changing Quote by Mack Wilberg

C'mon, I mean who didn't listen to 'The Who' in the 60s?

— Patti Smith

The reason most folksongs are so atrocious is that they were written by the people.

— Tom Lehrer

I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

The great thing about people in the '80s is there was a great zest for life. It was a really exciting era and the…

— Paul Young

I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a…

— Boz Scaggs

People link the 80s to that very liberal theme, growing up in a very liberal world, having ideals or not having ideals. The 80s…

— Sam de Jong

The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“I write the right stuff about the wrong people”

— R.J. Parker

I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space…

— Anne Roiphe

On reflection, I think the 1980s were a dreadful, abysmal time.

— Pete Burns

We live in more pragmatic times than when we originally recorded those songs. But many of the dreamers of the '60s have been elected…

— Paul Stookey

The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.

— Paul Kantner