Sixties Quotes

156 quotes by 136 authors

In the sixties, for anybody to suggest that the government didn't have our best interests at heart and policemen sometimes killed people would have automatically… — Alan Moore
I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done… — P.J. O'Rourke
Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes. — Yoko Ono
My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses. — Camille Paglia
Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of… — Robert Plant
If 'Trek' is a hit, we'd love to do a series of films - a regular event. Look at James Bond's films. They've been around… — Gene Roddenberry
Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page. — Jerry Saltz
Every movement that slays its gods creates new ones, of course. I loathe talk of the sixties and seventies being a 'Greatest Generation' of artists,… — Jerry Saltz
The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet artists, exhibitions, and… — Jerry Saltz
Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and… — Jerry Saltz
I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same… — Carlos Santana
I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. — Gail Sheehy
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride. — David Foster Wallace
I first came to Brazil in the Sixties. Then I started coming back every year since touring most of the country. I grew to love… — Dionne Warwick
I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them. — Scott Weiland
For all the feminist jabber about women being victimized by fashion, it is men who most suffer from conventions of dress. Every day, a woman… — Camille Paglia
Some may say that such a girl is not ready for a relationship with a man, especially a man in his late sixties. But to… — Miranda July
As a young man, I yearned for the day when, rooted in the experience that comes only with age, I could do my work fearlessly.… — Parker J. Palmer
Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little chunk of humanity… — Tom Robbins

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