Sixties Quotes - page 5

The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art. (Arne Glimcher)
I dieted all the time in the Sixties, but we had no idea what dieting meant - we thought it meant not eating anything. View quote
Britt Ekland
We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up. View quote
Craig Charles
Generally, older people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are running most countries and are CEOs of corporations. Which isn't to say there aren't entrepreneurs, but if the young were better in every respect, there'd be no reason for the old. Our life span reflects our particular life strategy. View quote
Cynthia Kenyon
The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas. View quote
David Bailey
I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties. View quote
David Bailey
I think until Britain acknowledges just how much of a presence black people had here before the Sixties, then there are certain stories that are not going to be inclusive of what I have to offer. View quote
David Oyelowo
People of my generation who became photographers in the late fifties, early sixties, there were no rewards in photography. There were no museum shows. Maybe MOMA would show something, or Chicago. There were no galleries. Nobody bought photographs. View quote
Duane Michals
I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled. View quote
Edgar Winter
When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time. View quote
Felicity Jones
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. (Gail Sheehy)
I'm a child of the Sixties. View quote
Ian McShane
Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties. View quote
Jack Bruce
Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular music, but by the end of the decade several artists with their roots firmly in both soul and R&B traditions had crossed over. View quote
Jon Landau
To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours. View quote
Jon Landau
Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first aesthetic and social, and then as an influence. View quote
Jon Landau
My mother handed down all these amazing scarves from the sixties and seventies, and I have a hundred of them. View quote
Kelly Wearstler
I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, too. My mother was very good at taking me to things like that. We lived in Reading, but we went on these cultural trips to London. View quote
Marianne Faithfull
In the future, people will blame the Eighties for all societal ills in the same way that people have previously blamed the Sixties. The various Thatcherite Big Bangs - monetarism, deregulation, libertarianism - have been working their way through the culture ever since. View quote
Peter York
I was trying to organise my DVDs into a sort of chronological order, and I am afraid that it all trailed off after the Sixties. View quote
Paul Merton
Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries. (Robert C. Solomon)
A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the music came out of it. The music wouldnt have happened without the social changes. View quote
Steve Winwood
I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them. View quote
Scott Weiland
When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks hardcore like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands. View quote
Tim Heidecker
I dont want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties. View quote
Zainab Salbi