Denny Laine Quotes

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

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

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

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

I kind of feel stuck in the late-Sixties and early-Seventies.

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.

At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.

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

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I've always felt like if I was going to be born any other time that it would be during the '60s or definitely during Woodstock.

You can't recreate the '60s.

We came out in the midst of the hippie hangover. All this mellow music.

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

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

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