Youth Movement Quotes

Punk was over in two years. That was the only damn good thing about it.

It's crazy that people are looking to me as a symbol like, 'Oh, he's the voice of the youth. He's this and this and that.' I feel like there's a lot of pressure that comes with it, when people look to you as the face of something.

Personally more so than shock, I think, rap music has to be born of rebellion.

Coming from art school, I had a great sense of style - as did The Beatles and the Stones - and I enjoyed projecting that. Image, attitude, great music and great lyrics - that was the '60s.

Punk and all that was just an image that ripped people off. Johnny Rotten's a wanker, and that's all there is to it.

There's no shortage of great young activists.

We decided to go the way of trading and getting younger players.

At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban the bomb movement was happening, the environmental movement was happening. There was suddenly a generation ready to change the course of history.

Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.

Will punk rock ever die? Pal, if you have to ask it's dead to you.

Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn't want to wear hats.

(Punk rock is) lunging after some glimpse of a new and better world.

I remember the youth movement in 1968. It started on American university campuses as a protest against the Vietnam war, then came to Paris, Frankfurt and Berlin. Within a year, you had an uprising of youth against their elders.

A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the music came out of it. The music wouldn't have happened without the social changes.

I think '60s are appealing to creative people, because it seemed to be a time of endless possibilities, when the boundaries of what could be considered popular culture were being expanded almost by the week. It doesn't feel like that anymore. At times, I wish it were so. Radio is a perfect example; good God, I mean, back then the most interesting songs were also hits, and that's just not true anymore. It hasn't been true in a long time.

Punk rock will never die, until something more dangerous replaces it.

At the end of 2002, mid-way through my junior year at Yale and increasingly freaked out about the deepening climate crisis, I dropped out to try to build a youth movement.

It's like hip hop all over again, back in the '70s back in the Bronx, when it was just bubbling. But it's going to be huge.

Punk is an attitude, not a genre, age group, or time period. What's interesting is trying to define the blues and punk in different ways. They are very close cousins.

When I tried to create a new political party, which I stressed that this is not my party. I believe very much that there has to be a revolution and this is a party for the young.

The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.

Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.

The whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the wall and many of them will turn to the spiritual path of truth.

That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: 'Go away, you bunch of boring people.

To be a young Gaullist is to be a revolutionary!