Ken Kesey Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 '60s were an amazing time.

I'm a child of the Sixties.

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

I was very, very lucky to spend my youth during the '60s.

You can't recreate the '60s.

I like being in the '60s.

Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong year - I think it would have been cool to be alive in the '60s.

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

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

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.

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 hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.

The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.

Those Laurel Canyon days were great. I have a real fondness for that era, 'til about '68. Musically, it was wonderful, and there was this great innocence, an idyllic view of the world. After that, everything got a little... edgy.

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

The problem with hanging on to the '60s is that everyone thought they would go on forever.