Daniel Clowes Quotes

Well, I actually grew up in the sixties. I feel very lucky, actually, that that was my slice of time that I was dealt. Let's remember that the real motivation in the sixties, and even in the fifties, was the Cold War.

I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic change in America. But events of tragic proportion took us on a turn. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were suddenly dead.

I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.

I think that's the fascinating thing about the '70s is that it turns out it was quite a dark decade. But, like, who knew?

The '60s is such an explosive period. It was very interesting for me because I grew up in Canada, and obviously, I know some American history because I've lived here for many years, and even in Canada, that does permeate.

The 1960s were a time of cultural revolution in Poland. And I was a part of that revolution. For me, those years - the late 1950s and early 1960s - were the most fruitful.

Heart had originally relocated to Vancouver because Mike evaded the draft to protest the Vietnam war. We had to deal with a lot at that time - it was a tough period for the band.

The '90s were indeed a great time to be alive. There was a sense of optimism that I never felt before that decade and I haven't felt since.

I do not remember the '70s, for who-knows-what-all reasons.

As an older person, I do feel an obligation to tell the story about what was really happening in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, as I saw it.

I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.

In a lot of places, of course, the '80s had never really come to an end.

I think the '70s are always inspiring to me. I was born then, so I have a lot of memories about how my parents were and what kinds of movies I was watching.

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

We now know how things were in the '60s and how things have changed, but I don't think we appreciate how much things have changed.

It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.

The '90s will be looked back on as ushering in an era of comfort.

I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s.

A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the music came out of it. The music wouldn't have happened without the social changes.

Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn't bother me too much. It wasn't really a musical threat.

Americans have always been amongst the most revolutionary people of the world.

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.

The first time that I went to the United States was in 1974. I was 20 years old. America was in crisis.

I don't remember most of the '60s and '70s.