Beatnik Quotes

17 quotes by 14 authors

I was a beatnik in the '50s before the hippies came along. — Charles Manson
It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during… — Peter Fonda
All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That's all I… — Janis Joplin
But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency, immorality, amorality ... woe unto those who attack… — Jack Kerouac
I think that in the past, in the '50s and '60s, after the existentialists and beatniks and hippie movements, the big deal was, Don't sell… — Guillermo del Toro
When LOVE played the still hipper Whisky A Go-Go, further west along Sunset, Arthur Lee claims they 'started the whole hippy thing' in tandem with… — Barney Hoskyns
Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things arenâ€™t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned… — Janis Joplin
Oh, God. The Sixties are coming back. Well I've got a 12-gauge double-barreled duck gun chambered for three-inch Magnum shells. And - speaking strictly for… — P.J. O'Rourke
It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention,… — Mary McCarthy
Cliches and stereotypes such as "beatnik" or "hippie" have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be. But one does… — Robert M. Pirsig
Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad 'Joey,' Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his… — Tom Folsom
The only thing I really wanted to be was a beatnik, and look what happened: I ended up being in a band. — Debbie Harry
My dad was a big fan of comedy. He wanted to be a stand-up. He loved Lenny [Bruce]. He also loved Lord Buckley and jazz… — Judd Apatow
I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd… — Janis Joplin
It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on. — Jack Kerouac
Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos. — David Lee Roth
Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist. I'd dress in… — Charles de Lint

Who Wrote These Beatnik Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 17 Beatnik Quotes as follows: