Culture Quote by Phil Knight

My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.

— Graydon Carter

The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in…

— Jack Kerouac

“The 80's in America were about building a better future here in America. We came into the generation dancing. We saw an explosion of…

— Phil Mitchell

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…

— Arlo Guthrie

It was like treading water all through the '60s, and when 1970 kicked in, I thought "We're here. Right." God, this is exciting. I'm…

— David Bowie

The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.

— Mose Allison

We came out right in the middle of the hard-rock period... it was hard-rock everywhere! But we were ready to make our music, you…

— Karen Carpenter

In the U.S., many people thought what we were doing was frothy, silly, just not serious enough. The kind of pop role-playing we were…

— Ron Mael

There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I…

— John Cusack

The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.

— Arto Lindsay

I was the bridge between the Michael Jordan era and LeBron James era.

— Allen Iverson

... so much of what we do now started in 1954 at Sun Records in Memphis Tennessee ... those guys were inventing that stuff…

— Brian Setzer