Curtis Mayfield Quotes

The '60s were an amazing time.

The 1960s were really a life-changing time.

I disliked everything about the '60s.

I am of that '60s generation, and for people of my age, that phrase 'change the world' has a real resonance.

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.

The '60s was a time of unthinkabilities.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.

I think the '60s were a time where they were singing about what was going on around them.

People are always asking me about the '60s, like I should be some sort of expert. It's like being in the middle of a hurricane, you can't describe it till it's over. Creativity was allowed to blossom, we were all allowed this marvelous freedom, there was money to do things.

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

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

I'm from the '60s, but no one has ever accused me of being a hippie. I never had much interest in the Woodstock crowd, which partied to change the world, while real people were starving to death in Africa.

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.

I was born in 1952, so obviously the sixties were important. That's when I came of age. It was also a revolutionary period, a complete break with the generation before us in terms of culture, literature, music, and in politics, of course. 1968 was an important year; I was 16, and the world became clear to me, visible, so to say.

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

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

In the 1960s, there was a forward way of speaking and inflection.

I'm a child of the Sixties.

All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.