80s Quotes - Page 10

• I do have a lot of references coming out of the '60s, '70s, and '80s, but I don't consciously think, "I'm going to put this here and this there." It comes out of my unconscious, and I don't want it to be just retro.

  Britta Phillips

  Thinking, Want, Coming Out

  "Britta Phillips Branches Out". Interview with William J. Simmons, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 9, 2016.

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• Now that the generation that grew up on '80s indie-rock has attained influential positions in the culture, that music is the new yardstick. And that will shift yet again some day.

  Michael Azerrad

  Rocks, Indie Rock, Generations

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There was a thing during those times in the '80s where it was like Sex Pistols then Nirvana and nothing in between.

  Mike Watt

  Sex, Pistols, Sex Pistols

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I grew up in the 80s and that was the first time advertising was considered seriously as anything resembling an art form.

  Stanley Donwood

  Art, Firsts, Advertising

  "Radiohead Artist Stanley Donwood". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 15, 2010.

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• It's weird for me to come from the 80s when metal was so uncool and see how far it has come.

  Mike Scheidt

  Uncool, Metals

  "Show No Mercy". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2009.

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• The drive to scale in almost every endeavor. The British went very large scale in ship building and a few other industries. Their steel plants were bigger and much more advanced than ours after the Civil War, but we had blown past them by the mid-80s.

  Charles R. Morris

  War, Past, Steel

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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• Daft Punk and I belong to the Generation 75. We were born in 1975, so we are somewhat in the middle of the rebellion and freedom of the 70s and the consumer culture of the 80s.

  Pedro Winter

  Generations, Culture, Rebellion

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I have this obsession with the '80s because I missed all of it.

  Regina Spektor

  Obsession

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I've got whole years of unfortunate clothing in '80s.

  Patrick Wilson

  Years, Unfortunate, Clothings

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I have had some sorry-ass looks, but I'm the first one to laugh. I'm either to credit or to blame for the '80s.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Sorry, Laughing, Looks

  "Jersey Devil". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. February 9, 2006.

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• My tastes range all over the place, from vocal standards to Motown to 70s funk & soul to 80s pop to film scores to artists like R.E.M., Ben Folds, Prince, Annie Lennox, the Police, Elvis Costello, Cat Stevens, the Ditty Bops, local bands that friends of mine are in, and the list goes on... I have no single favorite genre or artist.

  Stephanie D'Abruzzo

  Cat, Artist, Soul

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Now documentary evidence is acceptable. What does that mean? If you have documentary evidence that a person served as a guard in one of the death camps and the documents have been authenticated, that is grounds to charge the person with crimes against humanity. And that's why you see the spate of trials previously, for example, in the '70s and the '80s, even in the low '90s. That was not the case until the change in the law.

  Marvin Hier

  Mean, Law, Humanity

  "The Last Of Nazi War Convictions Will Not End Fight Against Anti-Semitism". "Weekend Edition Saturday" With Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. February 13, 2016.

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• People want to evolve the idea of the word "mini-series." Mini-series has an '80s connotation to it.

  Bridget Carpenter

  Ideas, People, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• The people are maybe still as aware of the differences but they are more accepting of it that what we saw in the 70s and 80s, but the undercurrent is still there. There are maybe no racial slurs anymore, no firecrackers in mailboxes, the distinction is much more subtle.

  Celeste Ng

  Differences, People, Saws

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I grew up idolizing these men, like Arnold Schwarzenegger. I loved Sly (Stallone). I loved Bruce Willis. These guys embodied everything that action was in the 80s and 90s.

  Katee Sackhoff

  Men, 80s And 90s, Guy

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• In the '80s, I loved the movies of the '70s. Also I remember loving Klute [1971]. I loved Jane Fonda. Actually, I auditioned for the last movie she made before she retired for a while, Stanley and Iris [1990], which Martha Plimpton got.

  Winona Ryder

  Lasts, Irises, Remember

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm 33, my generation, when I was young, we'd go out into the woods for the entire day and come back for dinner. I was definitely a kid of the '80s, who was out and about.

  Lissie

  Kids, Generations, Dinner

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Francis Coppola was very generous. We got paid a lot of money and he saw us every day, took us out every night. It was just a lot. Richard Gere was an absolute gentleman. Gregory Hines. You know, I worked with some giants and they were just so smooth. And it was the '80s. That's when people had a lot of money and it was okay to to hang out and be crazy.

  Jackee Harry

  Crazy, Night, People

  "Jackée Harry on 227, Ladybugs, and why she wants to be the next Maggie Smith". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. February 26, 2016.

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• Even when I did Ryan Gosling's movie (Lost River), we had a very '80s kind of vibe and I would say for two or three months after that, I was dressing in a very sort of '80s way.

  Christina Hendricks

  Two, Rivers, Three

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• Growing up in the 70s and 80s, it took effort to be a nerd. You had to seek out the nerd stuff.

  Chris Hardwick

  Growing Up, Effort, Nerd

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I think I heard it [ Ferris Bueller's Day Off ] earlier. This was being played on a station in San Francisco called Live 105, which was a new wave station. It was one of the first stations to change its format in the early '80s. There was this wave of really strange music coming from Europe like Kraftwork and Freur.

  Margaret Cho

  Thinking, Europe, San Francisco

  "Margaret Cho on why Yello's "Oh Yeah" reminds her of sex clubs and John Hughes". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. March 2, 2016.

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• It's completely unsexy [Yello, "Oh Yeah" 1985]. It does capture that weird '80s materialism and "We're gonna get it on now" vibe. But it's a very juvenile approach. It also became a weird signal for comedy, in the sense that when you heard the song, it meant comedy was happening on screen. I feel like this song was probably done in a couple of minutes in a studio.

  Margaret Cho

  Song, Couple, Doe

  "Margaret Cho on why Yello's "Oh Yeah" reminds her of sex clubs and John Hughes". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. March 2, 2016.

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• The '80s was wild compared to my real small childhood, which was late '70s.

  Ice Cube

  Real, Childhood, Late

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• The '80s was brand new. It was AIDS. It was gangbanging. It was starting to become big dope-dealing, and crack was starting to flood the neighborhoods. And then you had hip hop, which was something new, other than what we were doing, which was sports, playing football, basketball, baseball. And I was excited.

  Ice Cube

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• I knew about Heatmiser, and I saw them one time at Pine Street [later changed to La Luna], which was the center of a lot of alternative bands during the 80s. But I didn't really know too much about their music.

  Gus Van Sant

  Alternatives, Band, Too Much

  "Keep the Things You Forgot: An Elliott Smith Oral History". Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. October 21, 2013.

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