Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability to be blown away by music.

- Brian Wilson

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.

- Denis Diderot

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

- Daniel Day-Lewis

Those Laurel Canyon days were great. I have a real fondness for that era, 'til about '68. Musically, it was wonderful, and there was this great innocence, an idyllic view of the world. After that, everything got a little... edgy.

- Chris Hillman

It may part of a one way evolution... or it may be we are currently on the downside of an innocence cycle where one day, with an up cycle, sweet will be entertaining again.

- Christopher Knight

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

- Clint Eastwood

I've always been fascinated with the stealing of innocence. It's the most heinous crime, and certainly a capital crime if there ever was one.

- Clint Eastwood

Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.

- Bai Ling

I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.

- Brit Marling

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

- Barney Frank

In Staten Island, when you have video showing the alleged chokehold used on Eric Garner, why not go to trial and have the officer(s) explain the tape, and then this jury can determine guilt or innocence? The tape should guarantee that there should be a trial.

- Al Sharpton

India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer.

- Anil Kapoor

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.

- Adrian Mitchell

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

- Anita Brookner

Over time, naturally, you lose your innocence from gaining knowledge. You can't be innocent forever, but there's something in innocence you need to regain to be creative.

- Albert Hammond, Jr.

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

- Ang Lee

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

- A. E. Housman

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

- Arthur Miller

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

- Anatole France

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

- Albert Camus