Robert Plant Quotes

When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different ... we laughed at them. We condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives

I'm a real conservative. I never became a hippie, or a groupie. I never wore flowers in my hair.

I was certainly a child of the '60s, and I came out of that era, and as a young actor, I got cast as a lot of counterculture hippie types.

Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.

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

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.

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'm a 1960s flowerchild who has refused to grow up.

There's nothing wrong with being a hippie.

It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love Not War - we were idealistic innocents, darling, despite the drugs and sex. We were sweet lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else. When you're young you think that's how life works. None of us were famous, we were broke. We didn't think they'd be writing books about us in 30 years. We were just kids doing the right thing.

If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear a flower in your hair.

That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: 'Go away, you bunch of boring people.

Nothing like being scolded by a hippie.

I'm just kind of a hippie. Age is not that relevant to the music.

I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]

I came upon a child of god, He was walking along the road And I asked him, where are you going And this he told me: "I'm going on down to Yasgur's farm I'm going to join in a rock 'n' roll band I'm going to camp out on the land, I'm going to try an' get my soul free.

Look, girls don't care how many push-ups you can do. They just want to get high and wear flowers in their hair. Maybe steal a car.

Children, for whom suburban life was supposed to make wholesome little Johns and Wendys, became the acid-dropping, classroom-burning hippies of the 1960s.

All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.

I'm just an old hippie. You know, peace and love.

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've always despised the hippies.

If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.

Being a hippy was the most natural thing in the world to me.