Cilla Black Quotes

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.

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

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.

Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration.

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 was very, very lucky to spend my youth during the '60s.

The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.

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.

People are always asking me about the '60s, like I should be some sort of expert. It's like being in the middle of a hurricane, you can't describe it till it's over. Creativity was allowed to blossom, we were all allowed this marvelous freedom, there was money to do things.

The 1960s were really a life-changing time.

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.

The '60s were an amazing time.

The '60s was a time of unthinkabilities.

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

In the 1960s, there was a forward way of speaking and inflection.

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.

All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.

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

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

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

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

I would say that we have not completely cracked the code of the '60s. We are still finding our way through that time.

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.