Quotes About Youth

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.

Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!

The function of pop music is to be consumed.

I want kids to understand that making pictures is similar to making music; there are so many instruments and so many tunes that the possibilities for how you play are truly limitless.

Rock has always been the devil's music... I believe that rock & roll is dangerous... I feel that we're only heralding something even darker than ourselves.

Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.

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

I got into music when I was 12, 13.

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.

The music business would be much better, for the youth and the kids, if they start hiring employees that understand the kids.

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.

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

I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was rubbish at writing music. So maybe one day I'll play a rock star, or punk rocker.

I love this young people's music.

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

That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.

Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.

It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react.

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

Rock & roll is a type of sensuous music unfit for impressionable minds.

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

I find it very, very hard. He was part of the fabric of my life. We were kids together, and teenagers. We spent the whole of our lives with each other because of our music.