“Every kid comes to a point in his life, where you listen to your Dad, but then you go into the street and you start listening to the views of other people. You're looking for role models. It's like that moment when you step out.” PeopleMomentsKidsListeningDadRole ModelsYour Dad Author:Shane Meadows
“I was listening to country at the time too, mostly because when I was a kid growing up in the country, all my friends would listen to the CMT crap and I really hated it. That would make me really angry. But when I got older I started discovering that there was actually good country music that could sort of take me back to my roots.” CountryKidsGrowing UpListeningHatedCrap Author:Lydia Loveless
“I think people assume that whatever kind of music you make is the music you listen to. Don't get me wrong, I listen to tons of pop music and all the music that really inspires Best Coast is very straightforward '50s and '60s pop music, but I've been listening to R&B and rap since I was a kid. I grew up in L.A. It's part of the culture. I listen to anything.” PeopleThinkingKindKidsCultureInspireListeningAssumingRapStraightforwardPop Music Author:Bethany Cosentino
“When I was a kid, I was always going to bed creating a story and that was the birth of filmmaking for me. I would like going to the dream-state by telling the story to someone else in my mind. That was my imaginary friend; it was an imaginary audience listening to my story.” MindKidsAudienceListeningBirthImaginaryFilmmakingImaginary Friend Author:Denis Villeneuve
“It was tough sitting in jail listening to Jay Leno and Rush Limbaugh and everybody making jokes about me getting shot. And watching the media report all kinds of lies about me, like that I got raped in jail. That never happened. But at least while I was locked down, all the inmates gave me props encouragement, and so did lots of mothers and kids, who wrote me letters of support.” KindKidsLyingMotherSupportListeningJokesToughEncouragementAll Kinds Author:Tupac Shakur
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” ChildrenWisdomKidsCultureParentEducationFamilyTeachingListeningDiversityModelsSocial JusticeParentingVery GoodEducationalMy ChildrenYour ChildrenRole ModelsListenersImitationDeep ThoughtEldersJust ListenBeing A ParentHaving ChildrenImitatingChildren And ParentsHaving KidsGood ParentGood ListenerHappy ChildrenChildren EducationImitatorParents And TeachersBeing A KidBeing A Role ModelChild PsychologyGood ParentingSetting An ExampleGood Role ModelsAmazing ParentsHappy KidBeing A Good ParentInspirational ChildrenSetting A Good ExamplePerfect ChildGood Upbringing Author:James A. Baldwin
“I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.” SoulKidsUsedBitsBoysListeningGrewTasteGrew UpSouthLondonSuitsShopsBrownPantsEclecticBowieNeighbourhoodsTaste In MusicEclectic StyleToppers Author:Gary Oldman
“The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.” PeopleKnowsKidsSchoolCultureLiteratureBrainTalkingListeningMessagesHigh SchoolBuiltCourtReunionAttendingPromHigh School ReunionSchool Reunion Author:Anna Quindlen
“I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs and American standards. My dad listened to a lot of traditional Irish music and I grew up doing musical theater. So most of the music I was exposed to as a kid was pre-rock n' roll.” KidsSongHousePlayerRocksListeningGrewDadGrew UpStandardsTheaterMusicalMy DadTraditionalPianoExposedRock N RollAlleysTinMusical TheaterPiano MusicPlayer PianoIrish MusicTin Pan Alley Author:John C. Reilly
“In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.” WorldFeelsMadeKidsSidesClassGrowing UpGrowingMiddleListeningRadioNoiseAliensMiddle ClassDriversRelevantFascinatedTruckMississippiKids Growing UpBombayTruck Driver Author:Salman Rushdie
“Kids today aren't listening to music audio-only. They're picking up a CD and looking at the lyric sheet and wondering why the pictures aren't moving around. Who wants to do that? It's like Bam Bam Flintstone hanging with the dinosaurs vs. Elroy Jetson who's flying around space. If I'm a kid, I wanna be kicking it with Elroy.” IfsWantKidsTodayMovingSpaceWonderListeningFlyingSheetsListening To MusicCdsDinosaursKickingAudioKicking ItFlintstones Author:will.i.am
“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.” PeopleHeartKidsPainSongCultureLossMusicWorryViolenceSadnessBrokenListeningGunMiseryScaredViolentVideoTeenagerRejectionFidelityKids Playing Book:High Fidelity Source: High Fidelity
“Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently when I worked out with Jason Kendall and he told me he's liked listening to my records since he was a kid!” YearsKidsLastsFeltRecordsTeamListeningLast YearVeteranJason Author:Garth Brooks