Stevie Nicks Quotes

In the wake of the San Francisco scene, ears were alive. It was a listening generation.

When I grew up and went to school, all the cool kids were in Carhartts and Mudd boots, and they were listening to the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers and driving Volkswagens.

If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear a flower in your hair.

If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair, if you're going to San Francisco, you're gonna meet some gentle people there.

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

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.

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 grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement.

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

For me, hipsterism is for one to appropriate the codes of a social class or another milieu that wasn't theirs originally, in order to define their personality through something different and unique. Which is why a lot of hipsters live downtown, and they're dressed as farmers. Then you have the Oscar Wilde hipster: the dandy.

I was never really a Mod. I thought I was more of a beatnik with the brown corduroy jacket, blue jeans, etc. I loved the music Mods liked, and I loved the clothes, but I didn't have any money to spend on them.

I've always wanted to do a movie that takes place in the 70's and was about rock and roll and getting high, like Dazed and Confused or Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

I remember my mom dressed like Janis Joplin.

Back in the 60s, San Francisco artists lived in communes.

We came out in the midst of the hippie hangover. All this mellow music.

1968 was the beginning of the hippie movement in fashion. That movement made fashion change completely. It was not necessary to be always dressed up. You could be dressed the way you wanted - it was absolute freedom.

I was 15 years old in 1972, and yeah, when the 1970s broke, I was out there. Everything was kinda swirling around me - the music, women, cars, the culture.

I dress as a combination of space cowgirl and San Francisco art teacher.

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.

I've always wanted to live in the '60s and '70s and wear wide pants, knee high boots, and oversized denim jackets.

As a teenager, I used to dress up like a hippie. My clothes weren't posh.

L.A.'s hippies are actually quite scary - more like Hell's Angels than the Haight-Ashbury hippies of San Francisco.

I'm a real conservative. I never became a hippie, or a groupie. I never wore flowers in my hair.

I'm hugely inspired by the '60s and the '70s. I just love the music of that time and the overall freedom of that era. I love that the idea of clashing didn't really exist. You could mix prints on prints, you could mix fabrics and colors - and it was more about the way you felt than about the label and trends. That's something that I've always gravitated towards.

The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band