Charlie Watts Quotes

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

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

All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.

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

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

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.

Woodstock didn't define a generation because everyone showed up or those who did were a perfectly representative sample. It defined a generation because, for a few days, it bottled its peculiar zeitgeist.

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.

There's nothing wrong with being a hippie.

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

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

I've always despised the hippies.

If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.

I was a kid at the end of the 1960s and in the early 1970s, so a lot of things changed. You had pop music coming up, with David Bowie, you had new television programmes and all these things. I was fascinated.

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.

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.

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.

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.

Basically, I was a hippie and still am a flower child.

I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.

The hippy movement was a failure. All hippies around now just represent complete apathy. There's a million good reasons why the thing failed, OK. But the only thing we've got to live with is that it failed.

Those Laurel Canyon days were great. I have a real fondness for that era, 'til about '68. Musically, it was wonderful, and there was this great innocence, an idyllic view of the world. After that, everything got a little... edgy.

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