Roger Scruton Quotes

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.

You have the establishment and then you have the hippies revolting against the establishment, and what you end up getting are like accountants with long hair. And that's kind of what happened with the youth movement in the '70s.

I like the idea of playing people outside of society. That's where I tend to be drawn.

I grew up in Berkeley and my parents were hippies, obviously, since my name's 'Jorma.' I didn't watch much television growing up because they weren't into it at all.

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

You can grow up without having to conform, stop going to shows, stop having a record collection, start being politically iffy.

I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space to live or create, and they were bucking all kinds of spoken and unspoken rules.

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.

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.

I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world.

Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died.

My parents were hippies.

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

Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn't want to wear hats.

In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

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

I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybody else. You wanted to be strange and different, and art school encouraged that. We hated the drama students - they were guys with pipes and cardigans.

My parents were hippies. I'm the eldest of eight children.

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.

I have really never aligned myself with hipsterdom or coolness.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.

The motif of Beat Generation is basically misunderstood, a misinterpreted area. There's this superimposition of the idea of a social rebellion, which was the communist interpretation through Lawrence Lipton.

My dad has seen and done a lot. He comes from the hippie era where music and living life to the fullest is more important than stability and playing by the rules.