Bangs Quote by Peter York

The '80s have been so much doom and gloom. We've become very pessimistic.

— Dave Clark

The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s.

— James Grant

During the 1980s, many people mistook Thatcherism and Reaganism - actually a wild form of liberalism - for conservatism.

— Peter Hitchens

For the past 10 years, people have been making fun of the eighties. Why are we bringing them back?

— Lexa Doig

Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the…

— Jerry Saltz

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

I always say to people, the Eighties were so inventive because people wanted to stand out. By the time we got to the Nineties,…

— Nick Rhodes

When we're out of the eighties, the nineties are gonna make the sixties look like the fifties!

— Dennis Hopper

The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push…

— Cyndi Lauper

In the Eighties, the landscape was changing. No one knew if they had a future. It's not like now. There was no satellite. Kids…

— Shane Meadows

What gets called 'the sixties' left a mixed legacy and a lot of divides. But it opened everything to question, and what seems the…

— Rebecca Solnit

I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not…

— Derek Jarman