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

  Education, Children, Growing Up

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.63, Penguin

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

  Alexander McQueen

  Past, Style, Culture

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

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• 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

  Ideas, Essentials, Culture

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• 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

  War, Rap, Kids

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• I think there's this great disconnect between youth culture and politics, which is a product of how our capitalist system works.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Thinking, Culture, Youth

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Thinking, Culture, Youth

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

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• 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

  Culture, World, Youth

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• 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

  Lying, Makeup, Age

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• 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

  Baby, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  Senior, Target Audience, Issues

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• 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

  Thinking, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• 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

  Children, Breathing, Hatred

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• 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

  Loss, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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.

  Art, Issues, Age

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Thinking, Grace, Dollars

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

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

  Bill Cosby

  Golf, Honor, Culture

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”

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• 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

  Running, Men, Thinking

  Biography/Personal quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.

  Marc Newson

  Culture, Youth, Popular Culture

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

  Kurtis Blow

  Hip Hop, Culture, World

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

  Pat Metheny

  Guitar, Icons, Culture

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• 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

  Culture, Today, Youth

  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

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• 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

  Girl, Thinking, America

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• 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

  Musical Ability, Culture, Links

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

  Eric Allin Cornell

  Teenage, Years, Culture

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

  Marc Newson

  Strong, Japan, Europe

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