80s Pop Quotes

#1. I cursed and rubbed my forehead. The radio sang its bigotry in perfect '80s pop harmony. Let's send 'em aaallllllll ba-ack to Aaaaafrica . . . I reached down to the knob, to find the radio was already off. Here we fucking go.

David Wong

#2. I mean, I do consider that my music is pop because Ive been influenced by pop music my whole life; I grew up in the States and 80s pop music was my biggest influence.

Enrique Iglesias

#3. I like adding little elements into the final mix. I'm more fond of the '70s glam than '80s. I have that style of vocals ... there are a lot of pop artists who are using the glam vibe in their music. I'm part of that wave.

Adam Lambert

#4. The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.

Geezer Butler

#5. This is me trying to bridge the gap and make a record that I'm truly proud of, I've got my 80s side and my indie side, my super pop slant and the electronic music that I love. I wanted to make happy, feel-good music. It all comes from an organic place

Blake Lewis

#6. Smee?
What Cap'n?
You are a supreme idjit.
Aye cap'n.

Dave Barry

#7. I am a beautiful disaster just waiting to happen.

Scerina Elizabeth

#8. Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

Adam Smith

#9. I know it's not the '80s anymore, but the '80s are back with a vengeance. Get yourself some neon; whether it's a cute sneaker, a pump or a cross-body bag, add to your wardrobe a pop of neon.

Brad Goreski

#10. 80s music sounds so 80s now. But in the 80s, it just sounded like music.

Jeffrey Tucker

#11. Everybody was sorta going to sleep twards the end of 1983, and I felt that they had to be woken up!

Morrissey

#12. Miracles, or those extraordinary manifestations of the power of god, are not for the unbeliever; they are to console the Saints, and to strengthen and confirm the faith of those who love, fear, and serve God.

Brigham Young

#13. When I was a kid, my pop used to take me to the double feature. He would take me - I had two brothers - and we used to go in the early '80s and check out these grindhouse movies - a double feature, sometimes a triple feature.

Freddy Rodriguez

#14. Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.

Anne Bronte

#15. I can't really walk well. The muscles don't get the electronic signals from my brain, not that there's anything wrong with the muscles themselves. It's just my brain.

Linda Ronstadt

#16. For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She's a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the '80s. Back then it was so gay and so punk in so many ways.

Beth Ditto

#17. Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs.

Peter Steele

#18. I grew up with rock and pop music from the 70s and 80s. I had to play guitar in school - it was a music college and we had to take instrument classes there - so I think guitar playing and guitar sounds have always been an influence.

Christian Fennesz

#19. I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing, and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music.

Jessica Pare

#20. I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.

Camilla Lackberg

#21. Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus.

Steven Van Zandt

#22. My biggest successes were mainly in the pop market during the 80s.

Juice Newton

#23. Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.

Tommy Franks

#24. Nothing wrong with retouching - nothing new about retouching.

David Bailey

#25. In the '80s, they were using an awful lot of technology but hadn't really figured out how it worked yet ... You had these really great, simple pop songs turned into these gigantic overproductions.

Adam Schlesinger

#26. When you have got the greatest mountain of hardship that you've ever faced to deal with, you also have the greatest opportunity to act on a stronger faith than you've ever acted on before.

Calvin W. Allison

#27. Everyone knows Aquaman, probably from all the animation he's been in over the years from the '70s and the '80s, entering him into the pop culture.

Geoff Johns

#28. Keep alive the dream; for as long as a man has a dream in his heart, he cannot lose the significance of living.

Howard Thurman

#29. I started buying records in the '80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk.

Juan Campodonico

#30. The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself ... The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.

Jeff Melvoin

#31. So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!

CeeLo Green

#32. Don't give up on your dream. If you do, you aren't just giving up on its present-tense reality. You're giving up on its future-tense potential. Were

Mark Batterson

#33. As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.

Kaskade

#34. I wanted to be a rock star. I dreamed of it, and that's all I dreamed of. To be more accurate, I wanted to be a pop star. This was in the late '80s. And mostly, I wanted to be the fifth member of Depeche Mode or Duran Duran.

Eric Whitacre

#35. Sometimes I write songs that just come out in a pop format because I grew up on melody and these amazing artists during the 80s. It's my tradition and it's something that I can't really control.

Robyn

#36. Her hair was simply red and her coat was deacon blue.

Robert Rankin

#37. People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

#38. What I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies. In pop music, it's all about the techno beat to dance to in the club and the repetitiveness, whereas in rock music there is literally, like, balls-to-the-wall singing and playing. I love it.

Julianne Hough