Listening Quote by Irv Gotti

Hip hop has evolved, thankfully. Kids are making music that is important to their lives and outlooks.

— Erik Parker

If you speak to young kids anywhere in the world, hip-hop is the music that they like to listen to more than any other…

— Simon de Pury

Kids these days don't know as much about music as they think they do

— Dustin Diamond

You can't argue that hip-hop rots away the moral character of kids or rots their brain and still see middle-class white kids going to…

— Killer Mike

Young people have decided they like to listen to music in a certain way, through ear buds, and that's fine with me as long…

— Prince

Hip Hop has introduced us to a lot of genres that we probably wouldn't even listen to in our own homes from our parents.

— B.J. The Chicago Kid

I don't record (any type of genre of music) that I didn't hear in my family's living room by the time I was 10.…

— Linda Ronstadt

Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do…

— Aristotle

You gotta understand a lot of hip-hop kids are going to have the hip-hop mentality. And it's sad because they're not educated enough to…

— Taboo

Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it

— Saul Williams

You start learning English in fifth grade. I was 12. But even before then I was listening to American music. My neighbor was a…

— Ivica Zubac

Sometimes a young person is so intent on proving themselves that they don't actually listen to people who know things.

— Alex Wagner