Viv Albertine Quotes

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.

The '60s were an amazing time.

The '60s was the end of the America that the rest of the world liked.

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

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.

Sometime between when the Summer of Love ended and the Summer of Sam began, America became a nation of cynics about love.

The '60s may be idealized in the movie from a cultural point of view, but the decade was all about discord and a big generational split that was very painful.

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

I disliked everything about the '60s.

Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.

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

[ Vietnam War] brought the people together and made the '60s like they were. The youth were very unified against the status quo - against the old line and the new old line. It's the same exact thing today.

It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.

But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.

Most of my memories of the Sixties are ones of optimism, high spirits and confidence.

The '50s were terrifying with nuclear bomb stuff but boring in a social way, and then the '60s were happening, and remember, there was no AIDS.

I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.

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.

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

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world.

People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.

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.