Paul Kantner Quotes

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 sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.

A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the music came out of it. The music wouldn't have happened without the social changes.

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.

I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.

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.

The '60s was a time of unthinkabilities.

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

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

It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.

Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

I helped make the Sixties swing, and I'm very proud of that.

The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up from our maple-wood twin beds and fell onto the great squishy, heated water bed of the Sixties.

The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.

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

At the beginning of the '70s, everything was possible.

People blame the 1960s for just about everything these days, but it was the decade when all that post-war furtiveness and small-mindedness was finally blown open, and opportunity really came knocking.

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

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.

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.

At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban the bomb movement was happening, the environmental movement was happening. There was suddenly a generation ready to change the course of history.

What I felt at that time - we're talking about '61 - was that I couldn't remember seeing a film that reflected the age we were living in.

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

Well, I actually grew up in the sixties. I feel very lucky, actually, that that was my slice of time that I was dealt. Let's remember that the real motivation in the sixties, and even in the fifties, was the Cold War.