The'60s Quotes
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People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.
— Peter O'Toole
We now know how things were in the '60s and how things have changed, but I don't think we appreciate how much things have changed.
— Karine Vanasse
Music was transmitted over the airwaves in the '60s - for free, even - astonishingly enough without Bit Torrent.
— Andrew Rosenthal
I'm a big fan of the movies of the '60s, more than a fan of the movies of the '70s.
— Christopher McQuarrie
There are so many cute vintage dresses made out of synthetics from the '60s and '70s - but they're so itchy and hot. It's not worth it!
— Zooey Deschanel
I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s.
— Alanis Morissette
I don't remember most of the '60s and '70s.
— Jerry Della Femina
I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide.
— Tommy Rettig
They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.
— Christian Lacroix
There's no single movement out there. It's not like in the '60s, when Revolver came out and that's just it for the next year.
— Sean Lennon
The time eras that I really like are more on '50s and '60s.
— Olivia Palermo
The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordeaux throughout the 1940s, '50s, '60s and '70s.
— Robert M. Parker Jr.
There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square.
— John Waters
I wish people didn't just think of me in the '60s. I'm not any era.
— Marianne Faithfull
I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.
— Jonny Greenwood
I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.
— Laura Schlessinger
My political career goes back to the '60s and those were times of vigorous debates.
— Dennis Kucinich
We had the 60s sexual revolution, and now people are dying of AIDS.
— Christine O'Donnell
I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.
— John Cale
I don't really remember much about the '60s at all. You know, 1970 is the first year I remember pretty well.
— Hank Azaria
The problem with hanging on to the '60s is that everyone thought they would go on forever.
— Grace Slick
North American leftists just keep trying to relive the '60s, or to make the '60s happen again.
— Dave Sim
New York in the '60s was amazing.
— Nicholas Haslam
I was such a massive fan of all the '60s pop bands, but if I had to single out one band, it would definitely be The Beatles.
— Paul Weller
The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition.
— Kurt Andersen
The 60s undoubtedly were the most turbulent years of the century.
— Walter Cronkite
I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s.
— Sarah Brightman
I've had death threats, but I've never been fearful for my life. Although I have traveled with security since the '60s.
— Hugh Hefner
You can't be glued in the '60s. Walking around, going up the pub or popping to Tesco in a hunting jacket.
— Dave Davies
You have to remember this was the '60s, when climbing was dangerous and sex was safe.
— Yvon Chouinard
Nobody who lived through the '50s thought the '60s could've existed. So there's always hope.
— Tuli Kupferberg
I'm really into California art from the '60s. I like a lot of Bay Area artists, like Nathan Oliveira and Bruce Conner.
— Barry McGee
I don't accept armed struggle. Maybe it was the way in the '50s and '60s, but we want a democratic revolution ...
— Evo Morales
I wish I lived in the '60s because I'm a big fan of the Beatles.
— Celine Buckens
The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.
— Neil Young
When I was a kid, for me, the '60s seemed so far away. But I was actually born in the late '60s.
— Lisa Loeb
My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late '60s and '70s, and I guess I've inherited that awareness from her.
— Robin McLeavy
The '60s were an amazing time.
— Peter Max
I am one of the graduates of the William Morris famous, famous mail room from the '60s.
— Irwin Winkler
The '60s redefined narcissism as idealism.
— Dennis Prager
In the '60s, I used to love rock magazines; I'd cut out pictures of Bob Dylan and John Lennon.
— Patti Smith
I'd always had a big thing for the '60s.
— Miranda Otto
There's a certain urgency that comes from the records of the early 60s before overdubbing and multitracking came into play.
— Justin Townes Earle
I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.
— James Lovelock
I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.
— Joe Klein
The coming cooling of the planet overall will return it to where it was in the '60s, '70s, and '80s.
— Joe Bastardi
Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
— Audre Lorde
I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: '60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated.
— Valentino Garavani
The '60s had edge; the '70s had embroidery.
— Gina Barreca
People get so tired of the '60s.
— David Chase
Talented people are written off once they hit their 50s and 60s, and the saddest thing is, we just get better as we get older.
— Kim Cattrall
I have done a series in the '60s, '70s and '80s.
— Lee Majors
Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis ... you know in the '60s.
— Joe Cocker
I would love to try trends from the '60s and '70s and on but still keep my look modern and young.
— Bella Hadid
I am not a violent person. I am a product of the Flower Power '60s. I have actually worn bell-bottomed jeans.
— Dave Barry
At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics.
— Sergio Aragones
I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
— David Bailey
I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
— Al Sharpton
I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.
— Anthony Kiedis
I've been performing since the 60s and I made my first album in 1969, so it's been a bit over twenty years.
— Thelma Houston
The 50s face was angry, the 60s face was well-fed, the 70s face was foxy. Perhaps it was the right expression: there was a lot to be wary about.
— Keith Waterhouse
He was interviewed in the early '60s by a young novelist, Pati Hill.
— George Plimpton
'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s.
— Bruce Cockburn
My mom was a working woman. She made more money than my dad. Both my parents worked. And this was in the '60s.
— Rick Santorum
Portofino in the '60s was magic. Women in bright silk, each with a gardenia in their hand. The bottle started then, in my mind.
— Elsa Peretti
The blues was so big in the late '60s that it kinda wore itself out, and people weren't diggin' the blues as much.
— Johnny Winter
Me growing up in the '60s and '70s, there was almost something romantic about drugs, Keith Richards taking drugs and stuff.
— Robert Hilburn
I honed in on a great time, the Motown era, the '60s and '70s. That type of music has always been a staple in my life.
— Raphael Saadiq
I think my father had a lot of anti-establishment in him. He came through the '60s.
— Willie Robertson
Back in the 60s, San Francisco artists lived in communes.
— Gedde Watanabe
I am somebody who has never been able to give up '60s habits. I am the inevitable old codger on the dance floor.
— Simon Schama
My star was kind of fading towards the end of the '60s and suddenly I got this call from Fellini, who just appeared to kind of love me!
— Terence Stamp
The '60s were a time of great change in American music.
— Alexandra Patsavas