Nina Hagen Quotes

It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan.

In the early Seventies, I had shoulder-length hair, bell-bottom pants, love beads and shirts that laced up at the front. But then I smartened up.

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 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 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

I was a kid at the end of the 1960s and in the early 1970s, so a lot of things changed. You had pop music coming up, with David Bowie, you had new television programmes and all these things. I was fascinated.

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.

The '60s were an amazing time.

I don't really remember much about the '60s at all. You know, 1970 is the first year I remember pretty well.

I would love to have been born in the '60s.

I seem to be stuck in the '60s, and my favorite music, cars, and women's fashion come from that era. And the sense of social rebellion. It was a good time for a lot of things.

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

I grew up with the Woodstock generation. I went to Woodstock, and like everybody in my school, I wanted to be in a rock-and-roll band, and most of us were. But I also grew up with a lot of piano lessons and a lot of classical music training.

There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense.

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

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

The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.

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.

I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.

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

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

I was a little too young to be a hippie.

I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s.

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