Dries van Noten Quotes

The '60s were an amazing time.

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

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

When people talk about the '60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll and I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything.

I love the idea of the Swinging Sixties in London.

Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong year - I think it would have been cool to be alive in the '60s.

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 think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.

The '60s weren't my cup of tea. I never bought that philosophy that, you know, we're all brothers and that'll solve everything. And I never believed that music dictated the times. I always thought it reflected them.

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

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

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

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.

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 disliked everything about the '60s.

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

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.

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 like being in the '60s.

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

I was 15 years old in 1972, and yeah, when the 1970s broke, I was out there. Everything was kinda swirling around me - the music, women, cars, the culture.