Sixties Quotes

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal. (John Lennon)
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas. View quote
Bob Dylan
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility. View quote
John Lennon
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact. View quote
Julie Burchill
I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
As everyone else, I was a fan of Pink Floyd in the sixties. View quote
Klaus Schulze
If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there. View quote
Paul Kantner
But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way they just stood there and shook their hair. View quote
Ronnie Spector
There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time. View quote
Sonny Rollins
If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles. (Aaron Copland)
All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the "fifties" or "sixties," as if life was really measured or lived in arbitrary decades, when the history books are sold like comix. View quote
Lester Bangs
The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties are not sufficient to meet the challenges of the seventies. View quote
Coretta Scott King
That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: 'Go away, you bunch of boring people. View quote
George Harrison
I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants. View quote
David Foster Wallace
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride. View quote
David Foster Wallace
It took Marvel Comics years to begin to put together any worthwhile superheroines. The first crop was, to a gal, embarrassingly disappointing. They had all the measly powers that fifties and sixties male chauvinism could contrive to bestow on a superwoman. View quote
Michael Chabon
In the sixties, the recycling of pop culture - turning it into Pop art and camp - had its own satirical zest. Now we're into a different kind of recycling. Moviemakers give movies of the past an authority that those movies didn't have; they inflate images that may never have compelled belief, images that were no more than shorthand gestures - and they use them not as larger-than-life jokes but as altars. View quote
Pauline Kael
How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century! View quote
Mary Augusta Ward
I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a "learning experience." Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a "learning experience." It makes me feel less stupid. (P. J. O'Rourke)
It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political. View quote
Joe Dante
Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him. I was at university at the same time as him. I think in the sixties, like all the Royals, he really had very little impact on my life at all and he seemed, if anything a lot older in his attitudes. View quote
Anthony Holden
The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything. View quote
Bill Lee
I think the Sixties in some ways is a barrier to young people today. They think of it, you know, what we're doing is not that. But it's partly the myth of the Sixties. It always felt embattled and small. It always, almost always, was a small group of people relative to the opposition around. View quote
Bernardine Dohrn