John Gourley Quotes

There's nothing wrong with being a hippie.

I'm a modern-day hippie.

I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.

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

I’m not a woman you bring home to Mother, pick out china patterns with, or Mary forefend, breed. I’ve seen a chunk of the universe, true, but there’s still so much more to see. I doubt I’ll ever cure this wanderlust, and I’m content with dedicating my life to failing to sate it... He’s never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones that rhyme.

My parents were hippies.

I was a college dropout, hitchhiking across the Midwest. That was part of the old, adventurous spirit.

Yes, I was a hippy - absolutely a hippy.

I'm a child of the Sixties.

When I grew up in the early '90s, the new World Wide Web felt like a gimmick, and I had no idea of the changes in store. In the summers, I'd backpack through Europe, follow the Grateful Dead. I had a car and a tent and traveled around the Great Lakes and out West. Jack Kerouac was my guiding light, his 'On the Road' a sacred text.

I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

Basically, I was a hippie and still am a flower child.

I've always had a desire to live on the outside. That's where I'm most comfortable.

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.

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

I'm not an old-fashioned, booze-and-drugs rock 'n' roller. For me, rock 'n' roll is all about doing whatever you want. It's about defying convention and being who you are. I'd rather go swimming or running or kite flying.

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

My hair is way, way long. I've hitchhiked across the country a zillion times. I've ridden in every car. I was never a hippie. It takes more than long hair.

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.

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

I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco.

When I went to San Francisco in that cold late spring of 1967, I did not even know what I wanted to find out, and so I just stayed around a while and made a few friends.

I've always despised the hippies.

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.

I'm compared to Kerouac, I suppose, because he traveled and rejected middle-class values, but the similarities end there.