Music Generations Quotes

#1. 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.

Thomas Bangalter

#2. I come from a generation that was surrounded by popular music, but I don't know if anybody's ever going to move the ball forward as far and as fast as the Beatles did.

Steven Soderbergh

#3. 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.

Judith Jamison

#4. Our campaigns have always been based on what we consider music icons that transcend generations and they're not of the moment - they continue to evolve.

Paul Weller

#5. When I started Rolling Stone in November 1967, the magazine's initial chapter was to cover rock & roll music with intelligence and respect. Even then, we knew that the fervor sweeping our generation encompassed more than just music.

Jann Wenner

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

Michael Jackson

#7. I know, for me, you know, my generation - I never would have known anything about Robert Preston's performance in 'The Music Man' if there hadn't been a film where he played the part. I just heard how great he was on Broadway way before my time.

John Lloyd Young

#8. I am the age of the some of the grandparents that are bringing their young grandchildren to hear the music. I have been fortunate enough to see multiple generations of families come see my shows.

Sam Bush

#9. Trends in culture all serve a purpose and that's always indicative in fashion and music, you can always tell what's going on culturally in the mindset of the young generation if you look at those mediums.

Marina And The Diamonds

#10. New generations have unprecedented power to make great changes. Take the music business for example. The new generations have toppled the music industry by file sharing, downloading, and Myspace. Rock 'n' roll belongs to the people.

Patti Smith

#11. I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to be plastered all over the radio for the masses.

Dweezil Zappa

#12. The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.

Gioachino Rossini

#13. I am looking for the fellowship of the burning heart
for men and women of all generations everywhere who love the Savior until adoration becomes the music of their soul until they don't have to be fooled with and entertained and amused. Jesus Christ is everything, all-in-all.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#14. I'm not too embarrassed to say I'm the definition of the target audience. This is my generation, the one of exalting music in album form.

Jonathan Lethem

#15. Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.

Karl Kraus

#16. Every generation thinks their music is the ultimate. But there's great stuff from every generation.

Delbert McClinton

#17. Kids don't care about rock and roll as much as they used to, as the other generations have. It's already turned into nothing but a fashion statement and an identity for kids to use as a tool for them to fuck and have a social life.

Kurt Cobain

#18. We want to keep extending our brand into different places, into movies and soundtracks and our music will live on through licensing and our brand lives on through merchandise and new generations will get to wear our clothing and our T-shirts and stuff that's associated with us.

Nikki Sixx

#19. I'm drawing from two generations back how to think about music, how to think about why you travel to make music, what the possible pitfalls of that are for the way your life is structured. The good and bad of all of it get into the mix of what's created, what you're creating.

Elvis Costello

#20. I don't want this music to die.The older people are passing it on to the younger generation so the younger generation can pass it on to the next generation.

Vy Higginsen

#21. When you talk or write or film, you work with the music inside you, the music that formed you. Different generations have different musics in them, so whatever they do, it's going to come out differently, and it will speak in beats of their own generation.

Robert Krulwich

#22. Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.

Wanda Jackson

#23. John Lennon was a musical genius. All I have to do is think of some of his songs and even the titles make me feel good ... and I'm not the only one. His music has crossed cultures and even generations.

Ray Comfort

#24. She was clean: no piercings, tattoos, or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame them, Alex thought, after watching three generations of flaccid tattoos droop like moth-eaten upholstery over poorly stuffed biceps and saggy asses?

Jennifer Egan

#25. When I left politics in the early Eighties and started writing and recording, my idea was that I could have an influence further down into other generations. That Natives could come into the culture through arts and music.

John Trudell

#26. It's really vital to have rock music because it connects the generations. It's important in that way.

Christine Ebersole

#27. Being Irish and a citizen of the world, has made me truly appreciate Irish culture, music and history. Whether you're first, second generation Irish or even with no connection to Ireland, you should visit in 2013 for a unique experience.

Liam Neeson

#28. Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Bill Cosby

#29. I think music influences fashion and has done so for generations.

Georgia Jagger

#30. Generation after generation can't just be loaded with more and more nuclear weapons and not ultimately dance to that music.

Marianne Williamson

#31. I love his music because he was my generation. But then again, Elvis is everyone's generation, and he always will be.

Margaret Thatcher

#32. The mythology in rock n' roll is that I'm a bit of a loose cannon. Yet I've produced more music than anybody in my generation. So how much of a loose cannon am I? But the general public believes that I'm a loose cannon, so let them believe it. I'm not going to correct them.

Billy Corgan

#33. I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people.

Dave Grohl

#34. It's rare when an artist's talent can touch an entire generation of people. It's even rarer when that same influence affects several generations. Elvis made an imprint on the world of pop music unequaled by any other single performer.

Dick Clark

#35. I was part of punk's second generation, so, not the first wave of '70s punk, but the American hardcore scene. I had a really strong love for music prior to that, but punk created a new template.

Bucky Pope

#36. Music has been in our family for generations.

Henry Garza

#37. We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard ... Everything was 10th-generation Led Zeppelin ... Overproduced, or just junk. We missed music like it used to be.

Joey Ramone

#38. We recognize the universal power of music to touch the hearts of men and women everywhere and in all generations-to inspire and encourage, to sustain and lift, to comfort and bring peace.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#39. The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. It was something that I didn't have the most fun associations around. A lot of people don't - they think of older generations and stuffiness. But it's not. You listen to the Overture of 1812, and you can hear a rock n' roll catharsis.

Lola Kirke

#40. Older generations can sometimes look down on today's hip hop but I refuse that mindset. I remember how hurt I was when older people told me that Run-D.M.C. was jungle music or that it was not music at all. Or that LL Cool J was not art.

Erik Parker

#41. It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.

Carlisle Floyd

#42. I always want to do music that inspires or influences another generation. You want what you create to live, be it sculpture or painting or music. Like Michelangelo, he said, I know the creator will go, but his work survives. That is why to escape death, I attempt to bind my soul to my work.

Michael Jackson

#43. I think the hymns give us a glimpse of the generations before us, and what was important to them at the time. Even though they are usually singing similiar messages that are in today's music, it is good to be reminded that the message of Christ is just as much relevant today as it was then.

Bart Millard

#44. Everybody's not going to like jazz, let's just be honest about it. Everybody doesn't like everything. There's a disconnect in generations and some people just aren't going to feel that music.

Robert Glasper

#45. 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.

Michael Azerrad

#46. We come from a generation that wanted to make electronic music accepted, at a time [when] it was not.

Thomas Bangalter

#47. I am continually influenced by the feeling that music culture captured in the late 60s - for my generation, it was a time to rebel, against our parents, against everything.

Renzo Rosso

#48. Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.

Simon Le Bon