My Generation Quotes

• I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Hipster, Night, Mind

  "Howl" l. 1 (1956)

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• I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

  Kanye West

  Sleep, Artist, Our Generation

  "Why Kanye West really is the world's No 1 rock star" by Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2013.

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• I hope I die before I get old.

  Roger Daltrey

  Rock N Roll, Dies

  "Song: "My Generation" ("My Generation")". 1965.

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• Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

  William James

  Positive, Attitude, Philosophical

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• I've always loved hip-hop, since I was a kid, that's the music that I loved. I think everyone of our generation kind of fantasized about hip-hop in some ways.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Kids, Thinking, Our Generation

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• I think there are very few people, in my generation at least, that are that passionate about what they do.

  Sasha Grey

  Thinking, People, Generations

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I really want to do the unexpected, and I think that's what I did when I executed 'Long.Live.A$AP.' I wanted people to really see the message and that I'm an artist who not only has the capability of rapping, but of composing great music both for people of my generation and for people with different backgrounds.

  ASAP Rocky

  Rap, Artist, Thinking

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• I've always found that fashion is, first of all, mainly for yourself. So my two icons are, on one side, Little Edie from 'Grey Gardens' and, of course, like all my generation, I'm influenced by Kate Moss.

  Lou Doillon

  Fashion, Garden, Two

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• I'm from the generation that's always been recording, from the very beginning. I learned to play the guitar on the four-track. I started listening to music at a time when people were doing recording at home, when the discussion about songwriting correlated to the discussion about producing and engineering. I think that's a description of my generation.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Home, Thinking, Guitar

  Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 15, 2006.

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• My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.

  Erica Jong

  Female Writers, Generations, Fiction

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• The Pink Panther is legendary, but a lot of people my age haven't ever seen the original. So, I think it's great to bring it back for my generation, and to expose them to where that theme song which still sounds so modern and that legendary image of a pink cat came from. It's great to be a part of that, because it's history.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Song, Cat, Thinking

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• Albert [Brooks] was rare in that he could make adults laugh. He was a prodigy. At age 15 and 16, he could make my dad laugh uncontrollably. And whenever we had parties, some of the funniest people of my generation - whether it was Billy Crystal or Robin Williams or John Belushi - would be doing shtick.

  Rob Reiner

  Dad, Party, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A lot of filmmakers from my generation were lucky enough to have their work more or less perpetuated by people who saw them originally on TV and on HBO and certainly on home video.

  Joe Dante

  Home, Hbo, People

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• I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons & Dragons, or the geopolitical strategy of games like Diplomacy, a kind of chess superimposed onto actual history.

  Steven Johnson

  Sports, Dragons, Games

  Steven Johnson (2006). “Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter”, p.8, Penguin

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• I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the experiences of the black youth of my generation, coming of age in a racist society.

  Linton Kwesi Johnson

  Motivation, Writing, Black Youth

  "Trust between the police and the black community is still broken" by Linton Kwesi Johnson, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2012.

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• When I started making music, we'd lost a lot of our great people. Rock was moving in a direction I didn't like. Rock was my generation's revolutionary, sexual, poetic, and political voice, but it had become corporatized. It was going into stadiums. It was so far removed from its basic roots.

  Patti Smith

  Moving, Rocks, Voice

  Source: www.spin.com

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• Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying.

  James Caan

  Lying, Generations, Done

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• My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to go to war.

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  War, Vision, Generations

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• I want to be the first guy from my generation who doesn't just represent one record but the promise of a lot of them.

  John Mayer

  Goal, Guy, Promise

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• My generation never experienced (fortunately) that type of collective tragedy, where everybody goes totally crazy and turns the world into a gigantic nightmare.

  Roselyne Bosch

  Crazy, Tragedy, Generations

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It was feminism that made it possible for women to go to the Ivy League and women to be astronauts and women to have their own TV shows. What happened, though, was that the generation after feminism, which is my generation, misunderstood what feminism was saying.

  Debora Spar

  Tv Shows, Ivy, League

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My generation knew pretty well what happened 50 years before our birth. Now I follow all the quiz programs because they are a paramount example of the span of memory of the young generation - they are able to remember everything that happened in their life but not before.

  Umberto Eco

  Memories, Remembers Everything, Young Generation

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• For my generation, the monetary union has always been about forging peace.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Generations, Unions, Forging

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My generation has failed to stop the arms race. But it's really the men who have failed. Now it's up to the women, and I believe they can do it.

  Gene La Rocque

  Believe, Men, Race

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• If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.

  Vanilla Ice

  Running, Boys, Generations

  "Catching Up With... Vanilla Ice". Online Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. February 17, 2006.

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