Jacqueline Susann Quotes

The 1960s: A lot of people remember hating President Lyndon Baines Johnson and loving Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, depending on the point of view. God rest their souls.

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

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

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

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

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

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.

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.

You can't recreate the '60s.

How can I be a part of the 1960s generation when I don't even remember any of it?

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.

Describing Woodstock as the 'big bang,' I think that's a great way to describe it, because the important thing about it wasn't how many people were there or that it was a lot of truly wonderful music that got played.

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

The '60s were an amazing time.

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

People get so tired of the '60s.

I'd always had a big thing for the '60s.

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

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

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

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