Walter Becker Quotes

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

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

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

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

The '60s were an amazing time.

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

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

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 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.

You can't recreate the '60s.

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

Most of my memories of the Sixties are ones of optimism, high spirits and confidence.

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 was born in 1952, so obviously the sixties were important. That's when I came of age. It was also a revolutionary period, a complete break with the generation before us in terms of culture, literature, music, and in politics, of course. 1968 was an important year; I was 16, and the world became clear to me, visible, so to say.

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

I'm a child of the Sixties.

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

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.

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.

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

I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.

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.