Alan Gerry Quotes

The '60s were an amazing time.

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 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.

The '60s was a time of unthinkabilities.

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

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

I disliked everything about the '60s.

I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.

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

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.

The '60s are presented to kids today as a commodity.

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

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

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 was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.

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 '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.

I lived in France during the '60s. I was there from the early '60s until 1970, so my view of the '60s is more global. It was a time of tremendous transition, not only for America but for the whole world.

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 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.

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

People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.

The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.

The whole 1960s thing was a ten-year running party, which was lovely. It started at the end of the 1950s and sort of faded a bit when it became muddled with flower power. It was marvelous.