Top 33 ABBA Quotes

I still love Abba.

I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that’s what makes them extraordinary.

Every decade has its ABBA; that’s the proof that pop will always be around.

I like remixing Barry White and ABBA songs.

I don’t own an ABBA album, and I never had the urge to go and buy one. If you’re just talking about well crafted pop songs, they were fantastic.

ABBA was a direct influence on me.

Of course, we wore silly outfits, the pictures were corny, and some people still focus on that. But ABBA wasn’t a big intellectual thing. We were a pop group.

After we got our first family car with a tape deck, my dad acquired exactly three cassette tapes: A ‘Best of ABBA,’ ‘Private Heaven’ by Sheena Easton, and the soundtrack to ‘Xanadu.’ I also unironically love ‘Xanadu.’

In the mid- to late ’70s, there was no one better than ABBA at writing and producing great pop.

In a way, I’m kind of a bystander looking at this phenomenon that is ABBA, which is still around, and that I thought would be finished in 1981 and forgotten. I’m amazed how this could happen, and I don’t know why it happened. I’m just grateful and humble. I just sit back and enjoy.

When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.

I didn’t grow up with a musical family. My mom had a lot of CDs in the house, particularly Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, ABBA, all the sort of like diva icons. She’s Swedish, so she loves pop music.

You’re not really supposed to like ABBA in Sweden. It’s nerdy.

I grew up listening to most of my parents’ music like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.

For me, my favourite music was things like The Bee Gees, ABBA and ‘The White Album.’ The 70s is the period that I love more than anything.

I think the first music I ever heard was Abba. I took my mother’s cassette recorder and went into the bushes to listen to Abba when I was four or five-years-old.

I want people to remember ABBA as we were. I don’t think that four geriatrics wheeled on stage is what we should leave as our legacy.

I spend a lot of time with the grandchildren. They love it when we sing together. It’s fantastic to hear them, and they really can sing. I don’t talk to them so much about ‘Abba’ and the past, but as they get older, they will become more aware.

We have a history of great producers – ABBA and Max Martin – we have proof of people being successful from Sweden.

I was so tired once ‘Abba’ was over and just wanted to be calm and with my children. I married, was in ‘Abba,’ had my children, divorced, all in ten years. I wonder how I managed it, but I was young.

Meryl’s Donna embodied the spirit of ABBA and ‘Mamma Mia!’ in the first film.

Critics used to say that ABBA were formulaic or that our songs were rubbish. We never had time for those comments, though. We were sincere and devoted to what we did.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it’s my stuff.

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

I quite like ABBA.

My kids, I love it when they tell me, ‘Abba, I want to be an artist.’ And I say, that is awesome… I just want you to be happy and to follow your heart.

I was overjoyed when I was offered the title role in ‘Well Done Abba.’ I was ready for the role even before I heard the story because you don’t ask questions when it is Shyam Benegal’s film. It is the chance of a lifetime.

Richard Curtis has an encyclopedic knowledge of ABBA, which defeats even mine.

I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba.

Abba and me, we were the 70s.

In the beginning of my career, I wanted to be chased by girls more than anything – that’s why I got the guitar. By the time we were in ABBA, the music was the only important thing.

I love Donna Summer, and I love ABBA. I love late ’70s disco. I love the Bee Gees. I just love that period of recording.