Goldlink Quotes

I never went to any disco, I didn't know anything about dance.

It's crazy because I was 10 years old when 'Macarena' was all over the place, and I remember looking at it from a different point of view. I remember culturally how important that song was, even though people didn't really know what they were saying. It was more about the dance and the movement of it and the cultural side of it.

My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll.

I wanted to write what I remembered to be true.

I remember when I came home from the hospital after having my son, I wore a Narciso Rodriguez black coat. Then, I was using this fragrance that I had created. I walk by that coat, and it still smells like that fragrance. It takes you right there.

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.

There are now grandmothers and grandfathers coming to see us because they are of that age, they grew up in the '50s and '60s and they bring their sons and their daughters to hear the songs they heard when they were young.

In my day, in my era, Ralph McDaniels, just being five and being at his block party, you could just got onstage.

I was born in 1949 - which seems like a long time ago... Actually, it is a long time ago, when I think about it.

New York feels like the whole city is into dance music. That's not how it felt when I was younger. There was more of a hipster scene.

I'm too young to have experienced firsthand the '70s rock, but when I was in high school, me and my friends were super into Neil Young. That was the grunge era, and he was considered cool again.

The club scene is terrible.

I love the New York that was. The end for me was Studio 54. I don't go out at night anymore.

In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?'

I think people look at dance music and see it as kind of a bad thing, and bad people hang out in nightclubs, but it never felt that way for me. Growing up in Chicago, music was the thing that saved me, that kept me on the straight and narrow.

I was a clubber in the Nineties. I went dancing every week.

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, that's 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.

I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on.

Every single song that I've listened to is in my memory forever.

I remember, when I was a kid in the '70s and '80s, the '50s were really cool. And then the '60s were really cool. And then the '70s.

A lot of times, when you're seeing something that you've done, you're thinking about the experience you had making it, not about the experience of the product.

We weren't selling anything. We were just having a good time. And that feeling - there are people who say, 'I wish my kids, I wish my generation, had a chance to see it.'

I was going to clubs in Manhattan when I was 14.

I think I was born in the right era. But I missed out on some great music.