Salman Rushdie 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.

The '60s were an amazing time.

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

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 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.

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.

Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.

To talk about the '60s almost brings tears to my eyes. What we did. What we all did. We changed the world.

You can't recreate the '60s.

The 1960s were really a life-changing time.

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.

The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.

The '50s were terrifying with nuclear bomb stuff but boring in a social way, and then the '60s were happening, and remember, there was no AIDS.

I lived in France during the '60s. I was there from the early '60s until 1970, so my view of the '60s is more global. It was a time of tremendous transition, not only for America but for the whole world.

I thought the '60s was the most exciting time and the most vital music, and we were really together as one mind then. Then afterwards, the songs and the bad drugs, that took its toll.

I'm a child of the Sixties.

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

People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.

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

Those Laurel Canyon days were great. I have a real fondness for that era, 'til about '68. Musically, it was wonderful, and there was this great innocence, an idyllic view of the world. After that, everything got a little... edgy.

I would be copping out if I stayed in the myth of the '60s.

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