We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.
Pope FrancisBut I did ‚Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.‘ They made a cereal out of it, so once you’ve had a cereal, it doesn’t get much more surreal than that. Surreal cereal.
Keanu ReevesI’m screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I’m funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that’s appreciated by young people.
Kurt VonnegutYoung people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.
Pope FrancisI make pop culture.
Frank OceanThat little Miley Cyrus… she’s like a little Elvis. The kids love her because she’s Hannah Montana, but what people don’t realize about her is she is such a fantastic singer and songwriter. She writes songs like she’s 40 years old!
Dolly PartonI really like Lady GaGa and everything she is for her fans.
Taylor SwiftWhat we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.
Abraham MaslowI’m a geek.
Bill GatesReggaeton is something else – it is part of pop culture. It is something very big that I don’t believe will ever die.
Bad BunnyI feel like I’m changing pop culture.
The WeekndYoung people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
Haruki MurakamiSometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.
Ariana GrandeThat thing about being an icon, the fifth Beatle, I just found it so freaky.
George BestI don’t have faith in young people any more. I don’t waste time trying to communicate with them.
Vivienne WestwoodNinety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they’re going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It’s just a given law.
David ByrneThe last people with any ideas are young people.
Vivienne WestwoodI was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.
Robert GreeneYou know how you either grow up in a Michael Jackson house or a Prince house? For me it was Michael Jackson. I could never decide whether I wanted to be Michael Jackson or marry him.
Amy WinehouseWhat’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.
Bill GatesIt is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya AngelouI view myself as being the average woman. While I am first lady, I wasn’t first lady my whole life. I’m a product of pop culture. I’m a consumer of pop culture, and I know what resonates with people.
Michelle ObamaI know about two things: ‚Rocky III‘ and Clubber Lang, and ‚A-Team‘ and B.A. Baracus. That’s who I am!
Mr. TAll of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose.
Michelle ObamaMany people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.
Haruki MurakamiIs there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?
Anthony BourdainI love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
Walt DisneyGiven how few young people actually read the newspaper, it’s a good thing they’ll be reading a newspaper on a screen.
Bill GatesI stopped watching TV because of ‚The Wire.‘ Like, ‚The Wire‘ ruined everything for me because I don’t even want to watch anything else now.
EminemPop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.
Brian EnoWhen I’m up there, and I know the show’s coming to a close, in my head I’m saying to myself, Oh man, you gotta get off and be a normal person again. That’s what I don’t like so much.
Adam SandlerWhen you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.
David BowieThe English don’t like concepts, really, not from a pop star. It’s alright if they come from an ‚intellectual,‘, but from a pop star you’re getting ahead of yourself. Part of the class game is that you shouldn’t rise above your station, and to start talking about concepts if you’re in the pop world is getting a bit uppity, isn’t it?
Brian EnoI don’t watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.
Dan Quayle‚I’ll be back‘ always sounded a little girly to me.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerMost young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.
Haruki MurakamiNicki Minaj, will you marry me?
DJ KhaledCelebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.
BonoI think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.
Marilyn MonroeActually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.
Kurt VonnegutI’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.
The WeekndIt would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.
David BowieThere was a time Michael Jackson couldn’t get his video on MTV because he was considered to be ‚urban.‘ The Michael Jackson. So I literally have to be the Michael Jackson of apparel in order to break down the doors for everyone who will come after I’m gone, after I’m dead.
Kanye WestMadonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we’ve ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.
Kanye WestWhen it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.
David BowieThe concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.
Kanye WestYoung people can create beautiful things.
AuroraI meet young people who know me and are familiar with my stuff. They know the package. They might have cherry-picked five or six key tunes. That’s how it seems to work. I sometimes wonder if they realise they are not getting the whole context.
David ByrneIf I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.
Marilyn MonroeWhat should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
Kurt VonnegutRobyn is who I am. Rihanna – that’s an idea of who I am.
RihannaMy message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam