Quotes About Youth

I was pretty quiet as a child. I kind of hung out with my family and listened to music and sh*t. I wasn't too outgoing at all.

Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn't mature enough to write anything that meant anything.

When I was 18 the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.

The good thing, really, is that electronic music started as a fringe subculture, and now it's the biggest youth culture in the world. People pretty much everywhere go crazy for electronic music.

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

Music has always been a huge part of my life and when I was a kid I was always throwing myself into whatever I could music-related - even if it was a little embarrassing!

The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.

If you ever can bring about revolutionary changes, two things would be required: young people would have to be involved and you would need music.

Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.

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.

I lost myself to music at a very early age, and I remained there.

Everyone I talk to says stuff like, 'Music sucks today,' and I'm going to try and change all that.

A half a million young people can get together and have three days of fun and music, and have nothing but fun and music, and I God bless you for it!

Music has always been a part of my spiritual seeking, from the moment that Handel's 'Messiah' gave me the experience when I was so young, and music has meant so much to me since then.

Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like.

I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.

I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.

Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

When I was growing up and wanted to be a musician, the fantasy that I had of what the music industry was is so wrong.

My period as a young teenager when you really listen to music so you can get understand a little bit more about what the music is was, say, 1965 to 1968. I was just lucky to be in those times.

I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence.

There's such a wealth of great music, clothes or whatever. There is so much great stuff out there, that why would you not still be interested if you've grown up in that kind of culture?

When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven't even seen that part of it that much.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.