Ambitious Quote by Jerry Saltz

I feel like the seventies was a decade where things ran out, and where other things set in. There was just a lurking graininess…

— Quentin S. Crisp

My coming of age was in the '70s. A lot of people look back on it as a grim decade, but I look back…

— Boy George

A lot of things we take for granted sprang out of the 70s; it was a decade for thought and if a decade can…

— Vic Reeves

I grew up in the 1970s, and my friends and I felt very keenly that we had missed the '60s. We were bummed out…

— Jennifer Egan

The 60s were a continuation of the 50s much more than people realized. Certainly in some countries, like Britain, there was still a culture…

— Tony Judt

By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway.

— Dave Van Ronk

The '70s just seemed dirty, honestly, and not in an interesting way. It's not the '80s. In fact, it's 10 less. I grew up…

— Ryan Gosling

Something I always wanted to do, to capture that later half of the '70s. It's like the early half of the '70s is still…

— Daniel Clowes

The 70s were a wonderful time to be young. I think most young people at that time were pushing the boundaries, asking all sorts…

— Robyn Davidson

The '60s were an amazing time.

— Peter Max

I do not remember the '70s, for who-knows-what-all reasons.

— Cassandra Peterson

I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s.

— Alanis Morissette