Gugu Mbatha-Raw Quotes

I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.

The music that was popular in your youth seems to be the music you recall most vividly - and most nostalgically - for the rest of your life. But so is the music that was popular in your parents' youth.

It's nice to have been around long enough to be a part of people's lives. A lot of people who come to my show are real nostalgic for the '80s.

I think I get a lot of ideas from when I was a kid, listening to Casey Kasem's 'American Top 40.'

I had a brother six years older than me, so I wasn't just listening to teenybopper stuff. My brother had the cooler music, but my parents had the Burt Bacharach, Tom Jones, the Association, the Fifth Dimension; these groups were un-cool, but I secretly loved them.

When I was a kid, my first favorite song was probably Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side.'

When I was a kid, I had some Charles Lloyd records.

I was a child of the '80s.

When I was growing up, Green Day had just come out.

I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1's 'I Love the '80s' gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation.

Elvis' songs will always be there, and I hope mine will be after I'm gone.

Boy George was only 7 years old when I was hot in '68.

Growing up in the '90s was the coolest thing to me.

I'm a child of the '80s.

My brother Steve, who was a few years older than me, had 'Bad' on tape, and I remember listening to 'Smooth Criminal' and just thinking it was the coolest thing ever. I must have been five or six at the time, and I remember walking around school by myself thinking I was Michael Jackson. I wasn't dancing, exactly - more like walking musically.

It's hard to remember my childhood without remembering music.

'Remember the Time' and 'You Rock My World' from Michael Jackson were two of my favorite songs ever. My mom used to bump them all the time.

I love me some Mariah Carey. I grew up on that because of my mother.

My earliest memories have to do with music.

When I die, sprinkle my ashes over the 80's.

The music of your youth stays with you throughout your life.

Music is the one art we all have inside. We may not be able to play an instrument, but we can sing along or clap or tap our feet. Have you ever seen a baby bouncing up and down in the crib in time to some music? When you think of it, some of that baby's first messages from his or her parents may have been lullabies, or at least the music of their speaking voices. All of us have had the experience of hearing a tune from childhood and having that melody evoke a memory or a feeling. The music we hear early on tends to stay with us all our lives.

You can't love music without loving the Beatles.

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

Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music.