Ann Wilson Quotes

It's sometimes impossible to fit in all the music we want to fit in, in an hour and 45 minute show.

I love Eighties rock.

In the 80s, I remember the radio stations would play everything from rock to rap.

When I was growing up I actually was into Bon Jovi!

This genre of music seems to want to push people into a certain time slot, which is unfortunate.

The problem with the Moodies is not what to play, it's what to leave out! That's always difficult. We stopped having support acts many years ago just because of that. We needed getting on to two hours; there's such a big catalog to call on.

When I'm DJing for two hours, I might play two or three Smiths songs.

By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.

If I were doing a real rock show, slapping the phone book in time to the music, grooving with the songs, then it would matter to know how I felt about what I was playing. You can't fake it in that situation. But I'm just counting them down as they appear on the chart, 1 through 40. What really matters is what I say between the songs.

The thing about 'Hold Back The River' that I like is that it's a good starting place, and it was the perfect first single.

I try to be careful to not just say it's a greatest hits show because we've also made efforts to keep people up to date so to speak because we continually write and record and put out albums.

Just the fact that that Europe album 'The Final Countdown' came out in 1986 and 'Rad' came out in 1986... I'm starting to think that maybe 1986 is my favorite year, of all time!

I love the music, I love the times, so to me that was exciting personally just to play something that starts in 1986 with graduating high school, we've got a great soundtrack in the pilot.

I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past.

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

On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads.

There has always been a feeling with people that they love my singing but not always the choice of material.

The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.

I am the man who put the hair in hair metal.

The main issue was deciding what to play: Should it be old Ramones material or new material? I had about three albums worth of new material, but I knew that people would rather hear the Ramones songs.

I listen to a lot of '80s stuff, like 'Owner of a Lonely Heart,' by the group Yes. And Mr. Mister's 'Broken Wings.'

The eighties were my teen years, so the GoGos are sort of a touchstone.

We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid.

I love Whitney Houston. I absolutely love her song, 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody.'

Holy Joy were a cult '80s band led by the wonderful songwriting genius that is Johny Brown.