Ability Quote by Anne Waldman

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

“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

“The Beats’ self-conception descended from a particular American lineage—mountain men, outlaws, frontier cranks, lonely individualists, and narcissistic outsiders sounding their barbaric yawps over the…

— Kurt Andersen

I tried to distinguish myself from the Rush Limbaughs of the world, but I also understood that there were folks on the Left who…

— Charlie Sykes

The band has a liberal philosophy - that's sort of a given.

— Thurston Moore

“But such people (Moderate Conservatives) aren't liberal. What they are is corporate. Their habits and opinions owe far more to the standards of courtesy…

— Thomas Frank

“But all progressive movements have to beware their own successes. The progress they make reinvents the society they work in, and they must in…

— Tony Blair

Sometimes, with more progressive songs, you lose that feel somewhere along the line, but 'This Means War' never quits - the energy is always…

— Synyster Gates

It's not only progressives who listen to progressive radio.

— Stephanie Miller

“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

The great irony was that the punks were more conservative and narrow-minded and musically bigoted that anyone else.

— Genesis P-Orridge

Typically, people think, 'Oh the hippies and the punks hated each other,' or that those things don't go together musically. Sometimes that is true,…

— Bryce Dessner