Raheem DeVaughn Quotes

I'm a bit of a hippie.

I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.

There is a secret hippie within me.

My parents were hippies.

My dad just left high school in '69, went to Woodstock, and after half a year of college for architecture, just took off for Alaska. He bought a van and went straight into the mountains and built a cabin.

There's nothing wrong with being a hippie.

To get the hippie out of certain characters is probably the most difficult thing for me. I was not a hippie by choice but by birth.

Yes, I was a hippy - absolutely a hippy.

I'm a child of the Sixties.

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, despite the drugs and sex.

I went through bits of the 60s and thought myself a bit of a hippy.

Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.

I love the title of 'hippy' because it means someone who is thinking cosmic and futuristic.

I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.

We lived on anarchist farms, squatted in the inner city, and hopped rail cars. We wanted to see how other young people were creating meaning from their lives.

I was raised in a bit of a hippie environment.

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

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.

My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it's very open; my parents are both hippies.

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.

When I first read 'On the Road,' it helped me figure out how to live against the grain. Now I wonder how to be subversive when the subversive has become mainstream.

The '60s were an amazing time.