1960s Quote by Walter Isaacson

“The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently,” he said. “The…

— Walter Isaacson

Except in the areas of civil rights and medical marijuana, the legacy of the sixties counterculture has been largely superficial. Still, though the light…

— Tom Robbins

When I think about the real pioneers of the psychedelic movement in a musical sense, not just the culture, everything had a handmade sort…

— Chris Robinson

“The utter wildness of the nineteen-fifties, a decade in which 100 new religions were formed, psychedelic drug experimentation was on an industrial scale, and…

— James Mahaffey

Here we were supposedly changing the world for the better in the Sixties, but as we get 40 years further down the line, we…

— Steve Winwood

Ideas, we all know, are not born in people's heads. They begin somewhere out there, loose wisps of smoke swirling directionless in their search…

— Mia Couto

We were wild-eyed hippies from the late '60s. We still had the exuberance of the mind-expanding '60s - that Tolkienesque, Zeppelin, androgynous, wood nymph,…

— Nancy Wilson

There is a lot of sixties-bashing going on these days that I don't agree with at all. I feel that extremely important ideals were…

— Marianne Williamson

I went through bits of the 60s and thought myself a bit of a hippy.

— Julie Walters

Hippies started the ecology movement. They combated racism. They liberated sexual stereotypes, encouraged change, individual pride, and self-confidence. They questioned robot materialism. In four…

— Timothy Leary

Even though my father had a really successful career before the '60s, that kind of insane pop-culture splash that happened was so massive. People…

— Anoushka Shankar