Bill Medley Quotes

The people who were in college in the '50s were my first real audience, and their kids, the people who found my records in the cabinet during their 'Mad 'magazine years picked me up also.

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

You never know how things will last, if they will last, and how people will use them in the future. It was a fun movie for young people at the time in the 80s; but it struck a cord with people and it has lasted so I'm very proud of being a part of that.

Whatever had been on the radio in the '60s; I mean we were always listening to the radio.

There are now grandmothers and grandfathers coming to see us because they are of that age, they grew up in the '50s and '60s and they bring their sons and their daughters to hear the songs they heard when they were young.

Mrs. Robinson is a little dated now, but it has nothing to do with Joe DiMaggio.

There's always some generational-guys-hanging-out movie that is made every few years, I think, and some of them are great.

I grew up watching MTV, when Journey was huge, when Pat Benatar had 'Love Is a Battlefield,' and my friends and I used to cut school to watch this woman in the video. We loved Pat Benatar.

It's interesting because a lot of my 16-year-old kids' friends know me from 'Wedding Crashers,' and not so much Bond. My kids have a good laugh. I was 20 then. The look I had then was the look that a lot of their friends are assuming now. They think it's cool. What goes around comes around.

I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to 'New Kids on the Block.'

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.

American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.

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.

We've all had our thing. I listened to the Monkees when I was little kid.

But trust me, if I lived in the '80s, I would definitely be the one going to the record stores.

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

In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?'

I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.

I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on.

When you throw your hands up in the air like you just don't care, you're doing 'The Fly' by Chubby Checker!

I used to walk around trying to do the Britney Spears growl: 'Oh, baby, baby.'

The term 'Sock it to me!' was a big, big thing in our neighborhood - all the kids were saying it.

It's crazy because I was 10 years old when 'Macarena' was all over the place, and I remember looking at it from a different point of view. I remember culturally how important that song was, even though people didn't really know what they were saying. It was more about the dance and the movement of it and the cultural side of it.

We were the first generation of rock & roll, but life goes on.

I know the words to almost every '80s song.