Interesting Quote by Nancy Wilson

My view is that the great songwriting happened between 1920 and 1960. We're all, in our different ways, descended from the great songwriters of that era.

— Leslie Bricusse

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

What was great about the 80s was that you still had record companies who would get behind developing you as an artist. You had…

— Marc Almond

I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio.

— Ray Davies

The '80s definitely influence my music in a big way.

— St. Lucia

I think the zenith of popular songwriting to the United States of America was that period that started in the '20s and went into…

— Linda Ronstadt

Each song had a different way of coming about. In some, the music was written first while others it was the lyrics. We didn't…

— Elena Tonra

There's a focus that hasn't been there for ages and ages and some American bands are sounding quite English like they did in the…

— Graham Coxon

Eventually, our kind of music, whether it's us or Motley or Poison of whoever, will define the 1980s. That's something to be proud of.

— Jani Lane

We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.

— Isaac Hanson

Every riff had to be perfect and heavy, collectively what we wanted it to be. If there was one person in the room who…

— Johnny Christ

I guess when I was younger, I'd have assumed that in 2008 music would be full of great writers following in the tradition of…

— David Berman