Youth Culture Quotes:

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Education, Children, War, Conformist, Lunatic Asylums

Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.

- Alexander McQueen

source: Interview with Amy Odell, www.thecut.com. February 5, 2009.

topic: Past, Style, Culture, Youth Culture

Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's absolutely essential. It is the future. This is what we're supposed to do as a species, is advance ideas.

- John Lydon

topic: Ideas, Essentials, Culture, Youth Culture

Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that was psychedelic culture, anti-war culture, blue jeans culture. Eventually heavy metal culture, rap culture, electronica - they'll look for it and then market it back to kids at the mall.

- Douglas Rushkoff

topic: War, Rap, Kids, Mainstream Media, Mainstream Culture

I think there's this great disconnect between youth culture and politics, which is a product of how our capitalist system works. I mean, a lot of the kids I know are really politically involved. They really care about politics. I think we're going to have an incredible impact on how politics end up shaking this country.

- Amandla Stenberg

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Country, Mean, Kids, Youth Culture

I think the music industry, for instance, is such a huge, multibazillion-dollar industry and it's become very, very savvy. There's a very short grace period in which actual human rebellion or resistance can thrive before it's co-opted by these huge companies. And all of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.

- Ani DiFranco

source: "Interview: Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco". Interview by Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 8, 1999.

topic: Thinking, Grace, Dollars, Encroachment, Youth Culture

When it comes to radical youth culture nothing sells better than neatly packaged and politically correct rage against the world where everything is politically correct and neatly packaged for sale.

- Victor Pelevin

topic: Culture, World, Youth, Youth Culture

With actors, all our ages are out there for all to see - you can't hide anything, really. And it's kind of a relief. This is my age, this is what I look like without makeup on - who cares? That youth culture - that lying about your age - it's all denial of death anyway.

- Julianne Moore

topic: Lying, Makeup, Age, Denial Of Death, Without Makeup

I think there was a long period of time when we got real invested in a youth culture, and not coincidentally it was when the baby boomers, who let's face it, take up a lot of space on the planet, were young.

- Anna Quindlen

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Baby, Real, Thinking, Baby Boomer, Boomers

If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.

- Kurt Loder

topic: Senior, Issues, People, Target Audience, Senior Citizen

People see rock and roll as, as youth culture, and when youth culture becomes monopolised by big business, what are the youth to do? Do you, do you have any idea? I think we should destroy the bogus capitalist process that is destroying youth culture.

- Thurston Moore

topic: Thinking, Rocks, Rock And Roll, Youth Culture

The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgement but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

- Midge Decter

topic: Children, Breathing, Hatred, Youth Culture

I think that youth culture is now very deliberately designed by both corporate entities and by governments to not involve people directly. Because as soon as you involve people you have a small loss of control; and as soon as that happens, anything could happen.

- Thea Gilmore

topic: Loss, Thinking, Government, Youth Culture

Relevance is a big, big question. It's more about what's your definition of being relevant. In the music world, agism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.

- Larry Mullen, Jr.

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Art, Issues, Age, Youth Culture

Ours is a youth culture, and like a golf tournament, we honor only low scores.

- Bill Cosby

source: Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”

topic: Golf, Honor, Culture, Golf Tournaments, Youth Culture

I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.

- Chris Lilley

topic: Running, Men, Thinking, Youth Culture

I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.

- Marc Newson

topic: Culture, Youth, Popular Culture, Youth Culture

Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now.

- Kurtis Blow

topic: Hip Hop, Hips, Culture, Dominant Culture, Youth Culture

From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles

- Pat Metheny

topic: Icons, Guitar, Culture, Youth Culture

Young Americans today are no more learned or skilful than their predecessors, no more knowledgeable, fluent, up-to-date, or inquisitive, except in the materials of youth culture.

- Mark Bauerlein

source: Mark Bauerlein (2008). “The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future(Or, Don 't Trust Anyone Under 30)”, p.9, Penguin

topic: Today, Culture, Youth, Up To Date, Predecessors

Britney Spears. Because she's a girl, I wouldn't smack her - I'd lock her in a closet with poisonous spiders or something. Let her think about what she's doing to the youth culture of America.

- Brandon Boyd

topic: Girl, Thinking, America, Youth Culture

To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.

- Jon Landau

topic: Musical, Links, Culture, Youth Culture, Musical Ability

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

- Eric Allin Cornell

topic: Teenage, Years, Culture, American Youth, Youth Culture

In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.

- Marc Newson

topic: Strong, Japan, Europe, Youth Culture

I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.' I'm always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late '60s and early '70s and the youth culture becoming an industry.

- Jo Nesbo

topic: Reading, Transition, Culture, Reversal, Youth Culture

The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.

- Robert Wyatt

topic: Culture, World, Youth, Youth Culture

The ethical life... is maintained in being by a common culture, which also upholds the togetherness of society... Unlike the modern youth culture, a common culture sanctifies the adult state, to which it offers rites of passage.

- Roger Scruton

source: Roger Scruton (2006). “Modern Culture”, p.127, A&C Black

topic: Modern Youth, Adults, Culture, Rite, Common Culture

As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. I was sent away to this public school in the middle of nowhere, and I think we managed to completely miss out on normal youth culture.

- Mark Haddon

topic: Teenager, Team, School, Youth Culture, Middle Of Nowhere

I like the fact that they still run substantive pieces. I'm not sure I like the pieces, but it's nice that they do that. Anyway, it was always sort of ridiculous, me having anything to do with the youth culture, but now that I'm in my 50s, it's extra-double-ridiculous. They were losing interest in me, and I was losing interest in them. When I went to renegotiate my contract at Rolling Stone, I kind of halfheartedly asked if I could do half the work for half the money, and they asked if I could do two-thirds of the work for half the money. I ran that by my agent, since he can do math.

- P. J. O'Rourke

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Running, Nice, Math, Losing Interest, Youth Culture

Youth culture adopts Armani and adapts it in its own way, as befits youthful enthusiasm.

- Giorgio Armani

source: Interview with Aaron Howes, www.highsnobiety.com. October 5, 2016.

topic: Culture, Enthusiasm, Way, Armani, Youth Culture

Italy is not widely thought of as a pioneer of youth culture in the way, say, the UK is.

- Giorgio Armani

source: Interview with Aaron Howes, www.highsnobiety.com. October 5, 2016.

topic: Pioneers, Culture, Way, Youth Culture

When my daughter left for college, I lost my in-house consultant to youth culture. There's just stuff I don't get. And there's something kind of pathetic about someone my age trying to pretend she gets it, so I don't try to pretend.

- Emily Yoffe

source: Source: www.theguardian.com

topic: Daughter, College, House, Youth Culture

So I get all the references and I totally get the humor and it's really fun. This - it's kind of a mash up of so many different genres and things that kind of, sort of are just part of youth culture right now. Music and action and video games, and it's kind of amazing to see it all piled into one film.

- Mary Elizabeth Winstead

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Fun, Mash Up, Games, Youth Culture

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.

- Paul van Dyk

source: "The Evolution of EDM Pioneer Paul van Dyk". Interview with Samantha Oltman, www.motherjones.com. January 23, 2012.

topic: Crazy, People, Culture, Subculture, Electronic Music

1962 to 1965, where suddenly the guitar became this icon of youth culture all over the world, thanks mostly to the Beatles. Add to that, that I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times, and that the guitar was the one instrument that my parents absolutely refused to let in the house. So you add it up and see that irresistible forces led me to the guitar.

- Pat Metheny

topic: Night, Guitar, Icons, Irresistible Force, Hard Days