Donovan Quotes

I'd always had a big thing for the '60s.

Rock n' roll is not just a fashion statement; it is the attitude, and it has a political posturing as well.

The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.

Elvis Presley's music said, 'Free your body.' The Beatles said, 'Free your mind.'

I would love to have played in the '60s. Now that would have been fun.

The '60s were a time of great change in American music.

You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.

You ready? I have gold teeth, I have braids, I'm wearing Rick Owens moon boots, I have rips in my denim, a biker vest, I love artsy girls, my favourite artists are Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon. I'm obsessed with being different.

I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.

The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.

Good fashion is like rock music: all anarchy and revolt.

Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.

The Beatles' story is all of our stories. It is about how the youth culture emerged, the drug culture emerged, how politics rose to the fore as a universal debate. It's about rebellion, it's about the growth of the British entertainment system, the growth of the rock n' roll entertainment system.

It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

My favorite era was the '60s because it was filled with incredible creative newness, from panty hose to landing on the moon to Twiggy and Andy Warhol - I loved them, and they loved to wear my silver clothes.

Fashion is a huge part of music and of who you are. It really sets the mood for a show, and it's fun to play around with it. You can get really creative in photo shoots as well. You know, just having fun with it.

I've always been into dressing and being stylish because I feel like that's where I gained a lot of my confidence and swag as a rapper, so fashion goes hand-in-hand with music to me.

I like being in the '60s.

Style is everything. You look good; you feel good.

I grew up listening to the 60's and 70's... storytellers and poets.

I've never been too concerned with what I'm wearing, and that probably makes a lot of people angry, but I let the music do the talking and let the image be what it's going to be.

'Used To' is one of my favorite records because of its confident, 'in-your-face' lyrics.

If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.

It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.