Robert Indiana Quotes

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

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

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 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.

I was influenced by the hippie movement in San Francisco and by the feminist movement, which had arrived in Paris.

I'm not a flowerchild or anything like that... whatever it was.

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.

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.

I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement.

I'm a child of the Sixties.

Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration.

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 the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

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.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

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

Back in the 60s, San Francisco artists lived in communes.

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.

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

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

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, forest fairy kind of innocence. It sounds stupid now, but we felt we were changing the world with music.

I'm a guy who's all about peace, love, and happiness. I'm a bit of a hippie.

And it may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering, as it did at the first Human Be-In and Monterey Pop and Woodstock. Or it may be that two generations of war and surveillance had left people craving the embodiment of their own unease in the form of a lone, unsteady man on a slide guitar.

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.