Art Quote by Michael Stipe

The heyday of video music was the mid 80's.

— Nina Blackwood

Music videos may seem old hat now, but let me tell you, in the summer of 1981, MTV was indubitably the coolest thing ever…

— Julia Quinn

In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.

— Walter Becker

I think before, in the '80s, it was more about fashion and music videos and a lot of radio: getting out there and the…

— Tiffany Darwish

I've been through this fame thing before, when the band was big in '80, '81.

— John Lurie

The Seventies was a golden era. Back then we had some incredible talent with bands like the Undertones, the Rolling Stones and artists like…

— Leo Sayer

We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.

— Joseph Jarman

I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.

— Anonymous

I was born in '71, so I remember bits of glam rock on 'Top of the Pops' toward the late '70s, but I had…

— Ewan McGregor

When the 'M' of MTV was for music & not for maternity...Those were the days.

— Anonymous

I think it was about 1990 when we first wore heels to perform.

— Keren Woodward

MTV didn't exist in 1980, but by 1982, it had gotten to be a force to be reckoned with.

— Nick Rhodes