Quotes About Generation

I wouldn't say rock & roll is dead but the current music made by young people isn't really rock & roll.

I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got.

I always wanted to do music that influences and inspires each generation.

The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot.

My music is in young people's lives because it's so much a part of their parents' lives.

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

It is interesting seeing young people these days and watching how unimportant music is in their lives compared with our generation.

You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate.

Trance had become a dirty word. Thanks to Ian Van Dahl, Lasgo, Flip 'N' Fill and DJ Sammy, a generation of kids has grown up thinking trance is the shittiest music since country and western.

We're genuinely happy if some musicians of this younger generation are influenced by our music, as we were ourselves influenced 10 years ago by older musicians.

Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.

I've always loved hip-hop, since I was a kid, that's the music that I loved. I think everyone of our generation kind of fantasized about hip-hop in some ways.

I sort of fell out of new music. I'm old, I like what I like, and that's that.

The kids I talk to are convinced their generation will make the best music. And the greatest artists have yet to be discovered. I walk around with that thought every day.

I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.

I want people to have their own visions for the dance. Some generations will sit back and relate to the music. And the young people ...they'll have the dance right in front of them.

[Kids today] think "Grease" is just one long music video. So they watch it over and over again the way we, when we were kids, we listened to albums.

Now that the generation that grew up on '80s indie-rock has attained influential positions in the culture, that music is the new yardstick. And that will shift yet again some day.

I don't think radio has to be sectioned off where you listen to the music for your generation and your son listens to the music for his generation.

I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.

The Secret of the Occult Sciences is that of Nature itself, the Secret of the generation of the Angels and Worlds, that of the Omnipotence of God .

The secret to economic growth lay in the fact that that each generation attacked Nature not only with its own energies and resources, but with the heritage of equipment accumulated by its forebears.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.