Top 25 Youth Culture Quotes

I just have a problem with 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.

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.

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.

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

Bands like Little Mix do represent youth culture because loads of 16 year old girls listen to them.

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

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

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

Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them – you have to be like this or like that.

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

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.

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.

I’m interested in youth culture and popular culture.

I like books that explore identity and youth culture or rites of passage.

We are in love with youth culture in this country… It permeates every aspect of people’s lives.

I would say there’s always a movement of music and fashion in youth culture – every decade inspires the new one.

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.

Every place has its own punk flavor, but they all borrowed ideas from SoCal. It’s still a vibrant scene creeping into every crevasse of youth culture. When you hear grunge, you think of the ’90s, but when you hear L.A. punk, it’s timeless.

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

Being a musician has actually surrounded and immersed me in pop culture and youth culture from a very young age. But even before I was singing in bands and creating any kind of art, I was always fascinated by pop culture.

My place in design history is to sort of interpret youth culture, and I think we’ve seen that done in fashion before – it’s not a new concept – but it hasn’t been done with the same vigour in a modern context.

South Africa is the only place in the Southern hemisphere where Halloween is really catching on. They have a lot of sporting events that have made it more popular there. They have motocross and rave celebrations, and they’re embracing it as a youth culture thing.

Fashion and music are two great artistic forms that can be molded by the youth culture – our taste and our passion for evolving things in our limited time on earth allows us to look at things with fresh eyes.