Holly Hunter Quotes

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

The '60s were an amazing time.

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

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

I disliked everything about the '60s.

I grew up in that era of Hendrix and Joplin and The Doors, and the Summer of Love and Haight-Ashbury, and even the Panthers. That was my era; that's what I was into.

The 1960s were really a life-changing time.

Elvis Presley's music said, 'Free your body.' The Beatles said, 'Free your mind.'

North American leftists just keep trying to relive the '60s, or to make the '60s happen again.

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.

Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.

To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.

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

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

The Beatles' story is all of our stories. It is about how the youth culture emerged, the drug culture emerged, how politics rose to the fore as a universal debate. It's about rebellion, it's about the growth of the British entertainment system, the growth of the rock n' roll entertainment system.

Watching artists like Joplin perform, I felt that tingle down my spine; I experienced the wonders of a cultural and musical revolution.

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

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

I helped make the Sixties swing, and I'm very proud of that.

To talk about the '60s almost brings tears to my eyes. What we did. What we all did. We changed the world.

I think the '60s were a time where they were singing about what was going on around them.

You went to Woodstock and all that trash, your generation is fading fast.

There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square.

I love the Beatles, and when I was very young, I had young parents, so Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles constantly were big influences on my life.

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.