Joe Strummer Quotes

All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.

The hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.

My parents were hippies.

The hippy movement was a failure.

I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically aligned with that whole mentality, the whole ideology of that generation, the music, the culture, the behavior.

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

I've always despised the hippies.

Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.

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 grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

My parents are definitely reformed hippies.

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.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.

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

I'm not a flowerchild or anything like that... whatever it was.

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.

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.

Being a hippy was the most natural thing in the world to me.

Hippies? Why, I'm the original.

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

At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.

We are all a little bit hippy, a little bohemian. We take that from the culture we knew, from the '70s and the '80s.

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