Adam F. Goldberg Quotes

I grew up in Northern California, so the hippies were still around. My father and mother were very Republican, very strait-laced and very uptight, but my uncles were hippies.

You went to Woodstock and all that trash, your generation is fading fast.

I had hippie parents, and I found it difficult to figure out how to rebel against them.

My parents are definitely reformed hippies.

I was at Woodstock. In the mud.

I came upon a child of god, He was walking along the road And I asked him, where are you going And this he told me: "I'm going on down to Yasgur's farm I'm going to join in a rock 'n' roll band I'm going to camp out on the land, I'm going to try an' get my soul free.

Woodstock - I didn't see anybody play, except when I was standing backstage waiting to go on, because it was so muddy. And the weather was so horrible, you literally couldn't get there except by helicopter.

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 people were there or that it was a lot of truly wonderful music that got played.

There is not that much of a generation gap these days.

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.

The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.

The '60s are presented to kids today as a commodity.

I'm not of this generation.

As a father, you immediately become uncool, especially the older they get. The older you get, it's inevitable that, as cool as you think you are, you're probably just as lame in your kids' eyes.

I think, at first blush, the '60s always enticed me. There's something about the '60s, it's not hard to like it.

If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.

Though it's frequently portrayed as this crazy, unbridled festival of rain-soaked, stoned hippies dancing in the mud, Woodstock was obviously much more than that - or we wouldn't still be talking about it in 2009. People of all ages and colors came together in the fields of Max Yasgur's farm.

I was barely in 'Taking Woodstock.'

Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.

They say if you remember the '60s, you weren't there. Well I remember the '60s, I was there and I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Woodstock didn't define a generation because everyone showed up or those who did were a perfectly representative sample. It defined a generation because, for a few days, it bottled its peculiar zeitgeist.

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