Dennis Hopper Quotes

In the mid-'60s, I quit school and wandered across the country, hitchhiked back and forth a few times, and ended up in hippie times, in the street in Toronto, in Yorkville.

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

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

I've always felt like if I was going to be born any other time that it would be during the '60s or definitely during Woodstock.

I'm a 1960s flowerchild who has refused to grow up.

North American leftists just keep trying to relive the '60s, or to make the '60s happen again.

To get the hippie out of certain characters is probably the most difficult thing for me. I was not a hippie by choice but by birth.

I'm compared to Kerouac, I suppose, because he traveled and rejected middle-class values, but the similarities end there.

I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having.

When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.

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

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.

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

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

I disliked everything about the '60s.

Man, I would have loved to have been fully cognisant of the power of Janis Joplin. I would have loved to have been part of the revolution.

I'm not just a Sixties act.

I can't make the new generation like me, because they didn't grow up on me. So I stick to what I know.

What we didn't realize then - and one of the many things Timothy Leary was wrong about - is that when you drop out, you inevitably also drop in.

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

There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square.

I really floated around in the '60s, because I felt comfortable with nothing.

I'm talking about the '60s really. People go interview these guys and ask them, "Do you still think music can change the world?" I mean, go talk to Graham Nash about that. What's he going to tell you? Ask David Crosby. These guys are still out there. They're playing their hits at Staples Center and those are really valuable songs. I'm talking about a couple of the guys who got knee-deep into really believing music had a great service beyond radio. I believe it did. And I think a lot of those songs are great.

Of course, the '60s was a study in decadence. Everything just got worse and worse, and at the end of the '60s, everything was so horrible that people were killing each other.