American Quote by P. J. O'Rourke Download Open image “Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.” — P. J. O'Rourke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare American Artistic Artistic life Had Impact Life Tremendous Woodstock
Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
It was a turning point in the careers of Sly & The Family Stone, Santana, Jimi Hendrix and so many other people. None of… — Larry Graham Copy Share Image
For me, on a music level, I see the good that came from Woodstock. I also appreciate the fact it was a time when… — Larry Graham Copy Share Image
Woodstock is well known because this country is so hyped on amount. It was big. Half a million people doesn't necessarily mean something is… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Woodstock was not about sex, drugs, and rock and roll. It was about spirituality, about love, about sharing, about helping each other, living in… — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was the popular… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
“At Woodstock, we would focus our energy on peace, setting aside the onstage discussion of political issues to just groove on what might be… — Michael Lang Copy Share Image
American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it. — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
I think for a while, a lot of artists were doing great things that... were broadening the audience so that country was cool. — Martie Maguire Copy Share Image
Describing Woodstock as the "big bang," I think that's a great way to describe it, because the important thing about it wasn't how many… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The Democrats said, "We don't know what's wrong with America, but we can fix it." The Republicans said, "There's nothing wrong with America, and… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and the annoying… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the federal government,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Journalists are notoriously easy to kid. All you have to do is speak to a journalist in a very serious tone of voice, and… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
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… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
I really like a lot of American country stuff, so my music has that influence, but I don't like to be set within a… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act in a tremendous investment to support millions of workers without a paycheck and behind on bills. — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy and employ almost half of the working population. Yet because of their size, they rarely… — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
New York and San Francisco are distinctly different. San Francisco is driving the American media, not New York. You have young, microwaved millionaires and… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
