Beat generation Quote by Allen Ginsberg

The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked.

— John Clellon Holmes

It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on…

— Jack Kerouac

“The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in…

— Jack Kerouac

“Still, it is a stretch to regard the beats as initiating a major cultural trend in the late 1950s, let alone to see them…

— James T. Patterson

But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency, immorality, amorality ... woe unto those who…

— Jack Kerouac

“The beat generation is a coffeehouse full of people expectantly looking at their watches waiting for the beat generation to come on. *1958”

— Mort Sahl

That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.

— Talib Kweli

The Beat Generation - that term is even more familiar now, even more than say the '70s. Hype is built and established and people…

— Garrett Hedlund

The point is it is amazing that the generations have joined in the Beatle madness and love the music. Who knew?

— Ringo Starr

“Hip Hop Generation “captures the collective hopes and nightmares, ambitions and failures of those who would otherwise be described as “post-this” or “post-that.” ”

— Jeff Chain in "Can't Stop Won't Stop A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

I never did know exactly what was meant by the term "The Beats," but let's say that the original meeting, association, comradeship of Allen…

— Gary Snyder

“The Beats and the Pranksters showed us different ways of opting out of society. They were both the personification of countercultural movements. The Beats…

— Sterling Lord