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Parenting & Family Quote by David Cassidy

"I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds"

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There is a quiet flex tucked into David Cassidy's plainspoken brag: "I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds". Coming from an actor whose fame detonated as teen-idol lightning in the early 1970s, it’s not just a demographic boast. It’s an argument for legitimacy, durability, and reinvention in a business designed to discard you the moment your poster stops selling.

Cassidy’s particular cultural problem was being too successfully young. The Partridge Family made him a household name, but also packaged him as disposable, a product for screaming adolescents. By claiming a crowd that spans generations, he reframes that old image as a starting point rather than a trap. The subtext is defensive and aspirational at once: I’m not only nostalgia; I’m not only a memory your mom cringes at; I’m still live, still relevant, still worth the ticket price.

The line also nods to the economics of entertainment. A multigenerational audience means you can tour, book venues, sell merch, and stay afloat without chasing the algorithm or begging for prestige roles. Kids suggest freshness, the possibility of new fans; seventy-year-olds signal staying power and a back catalog that’s become cultural furniture.

Most of all, it’s Cassidy staking a claim to a rare kind of fame: not the viral spike, but the long echo. The sentence is simple because it needs to be. It’s not trying to sound profound; it’s trying to sound true.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Cassidy, David. (2026, January 16). I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-an-audience-that-goes-from-kids-to-seventy-110952/

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Cassidy, David. "I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-an-audience-that-goes-from-kids-to-seventy-110952/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-an-audience-that-goes-from-kids-to-seventy-110952/. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.

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David Cassidy (born April 12, 1950) is a Actor from USA.

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