Lloyd Kaufman Quotes

Certainly there's a huge appeal to the '60s, because it was such a big turning point to everyone. It was the era of change, the boiling point. People rebelled against things - the hippies, the feminists, the protesters. All these things just built up and boiled over. I think people can relate to that today.

I disliked everything about the '60s.

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

I'm a child of the Sixties.

'Dreamers' was because I really wanted to go back after I heard so much nonsense about '68. I wanted to go back to what for me was '68, when young people thought that they could change the world.

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.

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

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

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

The problem with hanging on to the '60s is that everyone thought they would go on forever.

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.

I am of that '60s generation, and for people of my age, that phrase 'change the world' has a real resonance.

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.

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.

There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a soixante-huitard - it's so nice to have a French word for it - is very different from just having happened to been a baby boomer in the '60s.

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.

The '60s were an amazing time.

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

I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world.

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

Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.

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.

A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.