80s Band Quotes

#1. I like vintage clothes, a lot of '80s band shirts. I wear a lot of my boyfriend's clothes, too.

Sarah Hay

#2. Most people found out about Slint in the mid or late 90s, but we were an '80s band. We started in 1986 and broke up at the end of 1990.

David Pajo

#3. Saw everything larger than life size, with the outlines blurred, in a golden mist of sentimentality.

W. Somerset Maugham

#4. If I'm not barefoot, you'll probably find me with a pair of New Balance on. And I'm not one of those hipster-jump-on-the-band-wagon-ironically-cool NB fans. I've been rocking those kicks since they were true nerd shoes. Since the '80s, yo! Word.

Reid Scott

#5. The first music I ever got into was the '80s alternative bands that my brother listened to, like The Cure and The Smiths and R.E.M. and Fugazi. I can remember specifically saying The Cure was my favorite band back in second grade.

Conor Oberst

#6. The band Grizzly Bear, I think they're excellent. There's a beauty and a musicality there that I wish would have been in vogue in the late '80s, when I was forming bands.

Trent Reznor

#7. In the 80s there weren't so many bands around and nowadays there are a lot more bands around. I think sometimes there are too many bands. But there are a lot of interesting young bands around. They are not really playing the classic metal stuff, that's up to the old bands.

Udo Dirkschneider

#8. I'm not ashamed to say that I really loved some of the hair metal bands of the '80s.

Chris McCaughan

#9. If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

Jean Cocteau

#10. I sometimes wonder how many hours of my life I have wasted bitching about keyboards. The use of keyboards and synthesizers is the Roe v. Wade of '80s metal. It was-without question-the lamest instrument a band could use.

Chuck Klosterman

#11. We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. There's always some promoter having an '80s night, saying, We'll supply the band. All you can drink.

Nik Kershaw

#13. My friend Fred Coury, the drummer in '80s rock band Cinderella, told me that in the rock world, you're either still there, or you're struggling to get back to where you were.

Steve Valentine

#14. Sara!" she cried, aghast. "Mamma Sara!" She was aghast because the attic was so bare and ugly and seemed so far away from all the world. Her short legs had seemed to have been mounting hundreds of stairs.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#15. Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.

John Hawkes

#16. I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive rock band and I've always followed his work and loved it.

Aleksandar Hemon

#17. I don't have to come back, because I am still here! And I'm not an '80s thing. I already worked with my first band back in East Germany and that was soooo '70s, young man. I'm a '70s thing. If I'm a thing at all ... and an exciting thing.

Nina Hagen

#18. I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

Yann Tiersen

#19. It seemed like, in the early '80s, there was just a moment where there was suddenly no specific notion of what a rock band could be or what a song could be.

Bucky Pope

#20. With how huge Yes was, especially in the '70s and '80s, as a touring band and actually playing at the JFK Stadium in Philadelphia to 130,000 people, which is the biggest-paying show ever in rock history, you would think we'd done enough for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Chris Squire

#21. If you're emotional and you're great at something, the money will follow.

Robert Herjavec

#22. In the 80s, in the cover band I was in, we'd slip in original material. If you didn't say anything about it, people just didn't care. Sometimes they'd ask where that came from and you'd tell them, but you still had to play a bunch of Willie, Waylon, and Merle.

Andy Wilkinson

#23. You just don't get it, do you, man?' I said. 'In the '80s if you were in a rock band, when you asked for a hummer, you got a hummer.'
Dr. Roberts nodded and wrote something down on his pad. Maybe it was 'motherfucker'.

Stephen Pearcy

#24. But I'll tell you this: When I lose my athleticism, it's time to go.

Doug Flutie

#25. How can the Replacements be the best band of the 80s when I've never even heard of them?

Jon Bon Jovi

#26. In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.

Gary Kemp

#27. No noble man ever hated good wine.

Francois Rabelais

#28. That really pissed me off, because I am worth it, goddamn it!"
"I know you - "
"Still talking here!

Robin L. Rotham

#29. There was in her the glow of the real diamond among glass imitations.

Leo Tolstoy