Beatnik Quotes
17 quotes by 14 authors
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I was a beatnik in the '50s before the hippies came along.
— Charles Manson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned…
— Janis Joplin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The only thing I really wanted to be was a beatnik, and look what happened: I ended up being in a band.
— Debbie Harry
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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
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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
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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
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Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.
— David Lee Roth
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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: