Do you all agree when Prince said the 60s, 70s and 80s were the golden ages of music?

The 60's and 70's were the peak of rock/popular music.  It was the time of super groups where you actually had to write and perform the music without the help of synthesizers and computers.  The 50's got it started and it blossomed during that time frame.  Once the actual playing of instruments diminished, the party was over. 

Do you all agree when Prince said the 60s, 70s and 80s were the golden ages of music?

No.  But the 50's seem to marked the beginning of rock along with youth/teenager emphasized music.  The 60's had the explosive anti-establishment anti-war musical creativity that moved rock into the mainstream.  I believe it's more of the personal expressive creativity influenced by culture that produces great music rather than the mechanical "artists played their instruments, wrote their own songs and actually had to perform".

Also, Prince was obviously referring to pop/rock music exclusively vs jazz, classical, opera, etc.  

I often think that I'm fortunate to have so many decades of pop/rock music to choose from.  When I was younger, pickings were much slimmer.

I listen all sorts of music. The culture and the fan base of EDM in the 2000s till late was equal to the 80’s, 70’s and 60’s fun. The 90’s were awesome.

So I cant say I agree. Every decade has something special.

Music is not about Golden Ages but emotional involvement. Like other senses, like taste and smell, listening transports you back to memories, places, friends, loved ones and lots more. Music is also other experiences like the intensity of a great classical adagio or jazz improvisation the sheer melodic beauty of an artists voice. Someone mentioned they could argue now is the Golden Age. I can go with that as today unlike the 60s to 80s we can pursue our musical tastes and preferences so easily and discover many hidden treasures and riches.

As others have said, what about the 1950’s, 40’s, and 30’s? I would also include the 20’s, but there wasn’t much recording being done then. The seeds of Rock ’n’ Roll (what most of us are talking about. To bring up J.S. Bach is not only silly, but disingenuous.) were planted before the 50’s, the Hillbilly element in the rural south---Virginia, Tennessee, and other southern states, the "Folk" music brought over from England and Ireland by our ancestors ("our" referring to we of Anglo-Saxon descent, of course).

The Rhythm & Blues element was being played by Negro musicians from Los Angeles (a hotbed of R & B activity in Post-War L.A.), down to Memphis Tennessee and Muscle Shoals Alabama, up to Chicago and Detroit (blacks fleeing the south moved there to get work in the car factories---booming after WWII, performing music in clubs at night.).

Sam Phillips was recording Blues and R & B singers (including Howlin’ Wolf) for the "Race" (Negro) market, proclaiming that if he could find a white singer with the black feel he would sell a million records. Enter Elvis Presley, who loved Hillbilly (he heard Bill Monroe and other Bluegrass artists on The Grand Old Opry radio show.), R & B (he was visiting Juke Joints on the other side of the tracks to hear black singers and bands, and listening to radio stations that played their music.), and the Gospel music sung in Baptist churches, both back and white (remember, even churches were segregated back then.). Sam didn’t sell a million Elvis records, but RCA sure did. John Lennon referred to Elvis as the Big Bang of Pop music, but actually thought more highly of Chuck Berry.

It was when I finally heard Jump Blues music that I realized where Rock ’n’ Roll came from. It was the Jump Blues feel that Elvis appropriated for his uptempo Sun Records recordings (and later for his pre-Army RCA recordings.), plain as day. Performing Bill Monroe’s "Blue Moon Of Kentucky" as a Jump Blues? Genius!

By the way: I’m sure you’ve heard that 1950’s Rock’n’ Roll shows started getting banned in some cities, the city fathers claiming the shows were prone to outbreaks of fighting, in some instances claiming Rock ’n’ Roll was a degenerate form of entertainment (I’m sure schubert concurs ;-) . Do you know the REAL reason? Fear of racial integration. Those Rock ’n’ Roll shows drew both white and black audiences (the blacks most often relegated to the balcony seats.), and there were those who didn’t want the "races" (aren’t all humans members of the human race?) mixing.