Adrian Younge Quotes

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.

Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.

No, I don't know how to get young people to start listening to jazz again. But I do know this: Any symphony orchestra that thinks it can appeal to under-30 listeners by suggesting that they 'should' like Schubert and Stravinsky has already lost the battle.

The public doesn't want new music.

I feel like I'm a product of this generation where everybody listens to charts with diverse music.

I don't know how many 78-year-olds are listening to 98 Degrees music.

Rock n' roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.

When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me with some artists and some songs, John Lennon songs or when Nina Simone sings. It's great to make those moments yourself.

Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.

A good song is a good song whatever your age.

People are like, 'Well, she doesn't know the Sex Pistols.' Why would I know that stuff? Look how young I am. That stuff's old, right?

I listen to all kinds of music. I love underground, new music that's popping.

I'm a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it's really great to see that there are new artists coming through. It's kinda funny to think that I'm like the old man on campus now. But I'm really happy for groups like One Direction. I think they're really good guys.

Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.

My management tells me, Don't be optimistic, because it's the young people's world now. They want to hear what they want to hear, and you're a classic rocker. I don't know if you're gonna get the play.

I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard.

Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that.

The whole heartbeat of the first record is young, which I think is what made it relatable to young girls.

The whole music world is based on the young, the very young people.

It frustrated me at college that all the acts in the Top 10 were like The Moody Blues and Phil Collins. It was like why did we get stuck with the last generation's music, why can't we have our own?

I love the fact that young people are into rock 'n' roll music.

When we started, there were no other distractions like the Internet and video games, so music was central to young people's lives.

I'm not making music for old people or young people.

AI as a tool in music-making is fine, but it's always going to be the humanity in music that makes people want to listen to it.

My thing has always been that the clothing we make is kind of like music. There are always critics that don't understand that young people can be into Bob Dylan but also into the Wu-Tang Clan and Coltrane and Social Distortion.