I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm 33, my generation, when I was young, we'd go out into the woods for the entire day and come back for… — Lissie Copy Share Image
A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
I've struggled so much, growing up, with just feeling that my life is valid because it's not filled with these hyper-dramatic moments,… — Ellar Coltrane Copy Share Image
If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to… — Vanilla Ice Copy Share Image
I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We're in a very self-destructive state where… — Drake Copy Share Image
My generation fought very hard for feminism, and we fought very hard to not be labeled as you had to have a… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to know now… — Jean Stafford Copy Share Image
In my father's time - he was in college during many transitions in the late 1930s - they had great institutional loyalties...… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
My generation never experienced (fortunately) that type of collective tragedy, where everybody goes totally crazy and turns the world into a gigantic… — Roselyne Bosch Copy Share Image
I like a lot of artists but I think the one that touched me the most was probably Tupac, coming up. Cause… — French Montana Copy Share Image
Our senior officers knew the war was going badly. Yet they bowed to groupthink pressure and kept up pretenses. ...Many of my… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case,… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own… — Ronnie James Dio Copy Share Image
It was in reading Tristam Shandy that I noticed how it is primarily men who gravitate towards the game-playing self-reflexive style. There… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I think my generation has had an unbelievably easy time profiting from the world that was made for us by our parents… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Most British playwrights of my generation, as well as younger folks, apparently feel somewhat obliged to Russian literature - and not only… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I got into comics about the same time as music. By 12 years old, I had discovered my dad's killer comic book… — Alan Robert Copy Share Image
The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which… — King Felipe VI Copy Share Image
For what my generation did and went through and so forth, and what these glamour boys earn for what little they play,… — Chuck Bednarik Copy Share Image
