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Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.

— Sam Phillips

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

— James Vincent McMorrow

When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the world would ever see. But those were also the years when hip-hop exploded, beatbox disco soared, indie rock took off, and new wave invented a language of teen angst.

— Rob Sheffield

Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.

— Salman Rushdie

The music that was popular in your youth seems to be the music you recall most vividly - and most nostalgically - for the rest of your life. But so is the music that was popular in your parents' youth.

— Robin Marantz Henig

So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool - to contemporary hard rock at that time, which was Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ted Nugent and all that, and that's just where I came from.

— Slash

There are people who will always want the genre, whatever it is, to stay traditional, to stay what it was like when you were 15 years old, but I just don't think music does that. Music is always changing and evolving, just like us as people.

— Thomas Rhett

Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.

— Ruben Blades

I started making music for myself when I was sixteen.

— Hunter Parrish

✗Opposing Perspectives

Kids like classic rock, and so do adults.

— Wolfman Jack

Music doesn't really require whether the person's a young person or old person for whatever kind of music it is.

— Leon Redbone