Back Quote by Garrett Hedlund

The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked.

— John Clellon Holmes

The '50s was the golden age of music all over the world for some crazy, 'X-File'-like reason I can't quite understand.

— Ry Cooder

“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

I remember, when I was a kid in the '70s and '80s, the '50s were really cool. And then the '60s were really cool.…

— Henry Thomas

I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic.…

— Rick Moranis

People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.

— Peter O'Toole

Certainly the beat writers I've known who carried forward the original, you know, I'd say that came together in the 1940s and 50s. So…

— Anne Waldman

The '50s were so lame they produced the '60s!

— John Densmore

The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.

— Neil Young

The motif of Beat Generation is basically misunderstood, a misinterpreted area. There's this superimposition of the idea of a social rebellion, which was the…

— Allen Ginsberg

Music's cyclical. There's always that next generation that always comes along.

— Eric Church

“The epithet was quickly moving toward capitalized status: the Lost Generation. In subsequent generations, similar umbrella identities would be ascribed to each era’s under-thirty…

— Lesley M.M. Blume