Alex Lifeson Quotes

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

I'm not a big fan of young people.

I was stuck as a Boomer type in a lot of people's minds.

When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever.

Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

Every generation challenges the one that goes before.

As long as cantankerous old people have existed, they have complained that kids nowadays don't seem to know anything.

Intergenerational support is crucial. I feel like generations give up on each other. If you're Gen Z, you're like, "Gen X is never gonna get it." If you're Gen X, you're like, "Those Millennials are such idiots."

Don't trust anyone over 30.

People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.

Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

That’s for old people.

Young people never do have a clue. There are some young people that do, but they've always been the exception. They always all grow up at some point. The problem is that they're all being indoctrinated by stupid leftists.

I found reading Alan Bennett striking because you have this sudden flash of recognition when you read about a boy who has intellectual interests utterly different from his parents.

To voice one's curmudgeonly thoughts - 'I hate tattoos,' 'If that kid says 'like' even one more time, I'm going to fire him,' and such things, instantly labels one as a geezer.

I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.

When I turned 50, I truly felt I was too old to work in Silicon Valley. No one said anything to my face, but when you can be the mother of some of the people you're interviewing with, that says it all.

People younger than me trust me. People my age do not. They think I'm up to something. And I've often felt this.

The myth that 'old' guys can't write anything fresh is just a myth.