Tony Abbott Quotes

Every generation has had some sort of focus for their unrest and discomfort with growing up. But today, the music that's in the charts is probably liked by their parents as well, and I think it's a part of youth that you need something that isn't liked or understood by the older generation.

Suddenly, I was thirty, very unhappy entertaining people in their forties, and here came a group of people in their teens and twenties who had similar anti-authority problems and similar dreams and wishes, hopes for mankind. So I gravitated toward them.

Adolescents believe that the world belongs to the living, or more particularly to living people their age, so they feel within their rights if they destroy the canon or rewrite the fairy stories or act like Red Guards.

Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.

We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were 'teen-agers' - a term, coined in 1941, that was in common usage a decade later - a new, recognizable franchise. We had money, mobility, and problems all our own.

I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.

Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-hop culture. Moreover, young black entrepreneurs like Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs and Russell Simmons have made millions from their clothing lines.

I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.

Don't trust anyone over thirty.

The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty.

Don't trust anyone over 30.

You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate.

I refuse to totally grow up. I've always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries.

The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Woodstock didn't define a generation because everyone showed up or those who did were a perfectly representative sample. It defined a generation because, for a few days, it bottled its peculiar zeitgeist.

The term 'Sock it to me!' was a big, big thing in our neighborhood - all the kids were saying it.

The more parents hate the music, the more their children will like it. It had been true with Elvis, and it had been true with the Rolling Stones. 'Straight Outta Compton' was music that parents could loathe with a passion. I knew we had a massive hit.

Young kids who are out there who are upset and angry, they can watch this and realize that you can speak out through your pen and not just with rage and anger, and challenge the people who are telling you things that you don't like to hear, like 'Hamilton' did.

I was very head-strong, and this was the Vietnam War era - You did not listen to your parents or other authority figures. You didn't share their values. No one did in my circle. It was OK to rebel.

We need punk now; we need it more than ever. We need rebellion by youth.

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

The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.