Gary Rossington Quotes

The Beatles set the rules. And the rules were: now just because we have long hair doesn't mean that we're rebellious.

Back in Chicago, all we cared about was rock 'n' roll and staying out of the army.

Everybody was starting to grow long hair and wear pink suits and purple glasses and stuff and then, I suppose, some people thought we were crazy, but we weren't really crazy because we're all still here!

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.

Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.

If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.

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.

The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.

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 seem to be stuck in the '60s, and my favorite music, cars, and women's fashion come from that era. And the sense of social rebellion. It was a good time for a lot of things.

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

The '60s is one of my favourite eras in general. I love '60s music, and I've always wanted to do a period film.

People get so tired of the '60s.

I'm a child of the Sixties.

It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not War. We were idealistic innocents, despite the drugs and sex.

I was a rebellious adolescent. It was the '60s. Everyone was rebellious. I hated high school.

Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.

I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.

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

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

I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.

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.

Rock was born in the South, so saying 'Southern rock' is like saying 'rock rock.'