Devendra Banhart Quotes

I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically aligned with that whole mentality, the whole ideology of that generation, the music, the culture, the behavior.

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.

All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.

The whole 1960s thing was a ten-year running party, which was lovely. It started at the end of the 1950s and sort of faded a bit when it became muddled with flower power. It was marvelous.

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

We came out in the midst of the hippie hangover. All this mellow music.

I grew up in that era of Hendrix and Joplin and The Doors, and the Summer of Love and Haight-Ashbury, and even the Panthers. That was my era; that's what I was into.

I feel very lucky that I was part of that whole scene in the '60s and '70s. I love looking at the photographs because everyone was young, and they were so gorgeous to look at.

If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.

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

The hippy movement was a failure.

The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.

I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.

The hippy movement was a failure. All hippies around now just represent complete apathy. There's a million good reasons why the thing failed, OK. But the only thing we've got to live with is that it failed.

I helped make the Sixties swing, and I'm very proud of that.

Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.

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.

The hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.

I'm just an old hippie. You know, peace and love.

I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation.

But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.

I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological.

I've always despised the hippies.

My parents were hippies.

Hippies? Why, I'm the original.