Synth Pop Quotes

I didn't really like the '80s, to be honest with you. There was some good music that came out, but it went a bit disco for me.

I was really big in the '80s.

The 1980s were all about synths for me, and it never went away after that.

I miss the 80's as well, it was a truly great decade for music.

I'm a huge fan of Eighties music.

I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.

There's so many oldies stations with 'Never Ending Story' and 'Too Shy' on their playlists, thank God. People still love the songs.

Yazoo was Vince's sound ultimately. At the time Vince and I got together he had only recorded one album with Depeche and Depeche were to go on to greater things.

I love nostalgic pop music. The '80s especially, to me, is the greatest era of songs. I just love the '80s so much.

The '80s were wild. The hair, the clothes.

I guess personally I really like "Take on Me" by Aha. I think it just defines the 80s and how insane it was and like neon and like calculator watches and that whole thing.

The '80s weren't perfect and people made some questionable fashion choices but in terms of music and movies, it was revolutionary and wonderful.

I love power ballads and the earnest lack of irony and emotion that exists in '80s music, along with synth guitars, of course.

I've followed Tegan and Sara's music for quite a while, and I've been a fan of them and what they do and what they stand for. We've run into each other at one or two festivals over the years, and I kind of fanned out on them.

'Pretty In Pink' was a huge hit for me.

If reggae comes from another country, you can have the relationship to reggae that I have to rock. But it's something I grew up with. It's probably something I appreciate more now. In the '80s, I was all about New Wave and synth pop - New Order and Depeche Mode and Eurythmics and Michael Jackson and tons and tons and tons of Prince.

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

Musicians like James Blake were a big influence on me. How he uses his vocals is amazing. And then Yeasayer and Animal Collective, who aren't pop bands exactly, but they do something that is so catchy and undeniable and so much fun.

I was a huge Rick Astley and Bananarama fan.

The '80s, no matter what kind of wacky fashion or whatever else that went on in the '80s, the songs that came out of it, there was really great songwriting, in my opinion.

I'm a big fan of '80s music, for lack of a better word.

I was always interested in mixing experimentation with pop music, and Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream - we were all doing it at the same time, just very isolated from each other, all in our different cellars, in different worlds, without the Internet - underground in every sense.

Well, what I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies.

I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.

On 'Kaputt,' singer-songwriter Dan Bejar reevaluates his band's sound and drifts away from the David Bowie comparisons that have plagued even his best albums.