Quotes about "Youth & Coming of Age"

Creating a dance is like coming up with a Chuck Berry riff. ”

The Ramones are the type of group where it took the world, like, 30 years to catch up with them. Because we were kind of breaking new ground, coming up with new ideas and different concepts which kind of blazed a trail for a whole new music scene, really. ”

Mostly I listen to old-time music, some bluegrass, some Americana stuff, too many to name. But of the younger acts, there are The Freight Hoppers, who were big in the '90s, and The Foghorn Stringband from Oregon, and there's a lot of young string bands coming up now, basically punkers who play acoustic instruments forming new bands. ”

The one thing that made me somewhat of an animal is I didn't have anything growing up. ”

Ever since I was a kid, I've been confident of coming out on top in a brawl, but the ring is a lot different from a bar. That's been my problem. ”

Football was a wonderful experience for me. It was a means of, oh, I don't know, sustaining for much of my youth. In times of trouble, I've always had football. I always knew I was a football player. And that was a comfort on many occasions. ”

I've always gravitated towards the beats, obviously. And when I was growing up, I always loved funk music or even - dare I say it - disco. ”

I consider my teenage years as being desperately unhappy. ”

We like to believe our fashion is growing. ”

The military infrastructure grew me. My faith in God is important, my belief in my country is important, my relationship to my family is important, the things that Mom and Dad tell you growing up are important. ”