Renata Adler Quotes

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

I did Vibe, and I felt old and paternal. I've got ties older than people in that audience. I had a talk with myself. I said, You've got to deal with this better.

Most of you are so young you don't know who I am, and that's good.

We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.

I've always found, when I was younger, that the older guys - the guys who weren't of my generation but were 20, 30 years older than me - were the cool guys.

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.

My parents aren't the demographic for a lot of things I do. If I did a stand-up show, and I saw 62-year-old Pakistanis in the crowd, I'd be like, 'I'm gonna bomb.'

I remember Nigel Martyn joking with me at Leeds, saying he was old enough to be my father, which he certainly was.

When you're young, it's hard to lead people that are older than you.

If you're 30, 40 years old, you're not getting listened to by minors.

I'm trying to get my kids - in particular, my step-daughter Mary, who's 12 - to recommend music to me. You reach a certain age and realise you haven't kept up, but I don't want to fall behind.

If you're an old cat around young girls, you got to have somethin' to bring to the table.

While all old people have been young, no young people have been old, and this troubling fact engenders the frustration of all parents and elders, which is that while you can describe your experience, you cannot confer it.

I do get pissed off when I'm at some gay event, and there's a 25-year-old, and he has no idea who I am. And I say, 'You need to know more about your gay history, boy.' I think the younger generation takes it a little bit for granted.

I don't know, I don't know how to do anything. I'm just like, doing impressions of what I've seen other people do, and hoping no one knows that I'm actually just a little monster in a human suit making my arms go up and down.

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

We are a very youth-driven culture, and I don't really know why because wisdom tends to come with more years, not fewer.

Frankly my parents didn't like him. They objected to the things he stood for. Besides, daddy and Hef are the same age.

There's no more fun. All that digital stuff - we used to do that crap for real! I hate that stuff. Young kids who play video games seem to like it, but I don't.

My parents were 30 years older than I was, and my parents had my brother and I ten years apart. My parents grew up in segregation, and they both lived in all-black neighborhoods and grew up with large black families. I didn't have any of that, and I didn't understand feeling so differently and being treated so differently.

A lot of times, older people don't get the new generation.

I got the name Lil Baby because I always hung around older dudes.

I remember when I was a younger cat, I always thought the veteran guys talked too much.

I'm too old to understand Snapchat.