Sixties Quotes

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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part. — Jerry Garcia
The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking… — Alice Cooper
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas. — Bob Dylan
I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the… — Marianne Faithfull
Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for… — Christopher Hitchens
Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful. — Khaled Hosseini
I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma… — Erica Jong
If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there. — Paul Kantner
The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions. — Henry A. Kissinger
Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first aesthetic… — Jon Landau
The Faces do not, as some have recently alleged, play badly. They are more than competent, especially at creating a mid-Sixties Rolling Stones-styled groove, as… — Jon Landau
To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability,… — Jon Landau
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace… — John Lennon
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave… — John Lennon
We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the… — John Lennon
The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions. — Audre Lorde
I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun. — John Lydon
In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks… — John Major
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties. — W. Somerset Maugham
Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother… — Joyce Maynard

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