1960s Pop Culture Quotes

It was great fun to hang around the Beatles. They had amazingly fast minds, and they were incredibly amusing and funny and witty. They were great. There was a very high energy surrounding them.

The Beatles have always had a big effect on me.

Anything to do with the Beatles is very complicated.

When the Beatles broke up, I thought to myself, 'Dude, seriously?'

As a kid, 'The Monkees' was such a cool show. I had such a thrill saying, 'OMG, I was in a sketch with one of the Monkees.'

When I was growing up, I had a nanny who would always play 'The Sound of Music' and 'Bye Bye Birdie,' so I was always listening to that stuff.

Growing up in the Sixties, whether it was the Batmobile or the costumes Porter Wagoner wore or the music that came from there, California was the home of what a friend of mine calls 'custom culture.' It seemed like the promised land.

The Beatles had a six-year career, from 1963 to 1969, which - to me, in my early 20s - seemed like a phenomenally long time.

I've read 'Valley of the Dolls' at least four times. It's so epic!

I can only say this with all relative humility: I saw myself as a Beatle.

Of all the '60s - there was Elvis, there was the Beatles, there was the British invasion, Jimmy Hendrix, and Woodstock - the No. 1 record was 'The Twist.'

The hardest one, the thing that made the greatest demand on me, was The Mamas & the Papas.

I know when 'California Dreamin' was first released, we heard it on KFWB or KHJ or something, and it was so exciting to hear the record come on the radio.

I fantasized that I went to art school with the Beatles.

My favorite show from the '60s was 'Combat.' And maybe 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.'

As a Liverpool boy, it is impossible not to think of the Beatles' question, 'Will you still need me when I'm 64?'

I love the Beatles. Now I know I'm a good few decades late on this one, but I've always been behind the curve.

When I heard The Beatles, that was my turning point. They were like my mentors. You know, the funny thing about that, when I heard 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand,' at first I said these guys are like a flash in the pan. But the second album, I had to take all that back. John Lennon - one of the greatest writers in the world.

The only movie I can watch on a loop, over and over, is 'Help', the Beatles movie. It's so funny and irreverent and great.

Hard Day's Night was one of those great films that will never happen again to anyone in their lifetime. UA were in profit before we'd even finished shooting - The advance sales on the album - the film was out before the album was out was more than it cost UA to make the film.

There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

I'm a big fan of the movies of the '60s, more than a fan of the movies of the '70s.

I got to see The Beatles a couple of times. In fact, I saw their last performance ever in San Francisco. The Beatles were massive to me - I learned so much from them.

I was obsessed with Chubby Checker and old dances, like the twist.

One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.