60s Culture Quotes

Coming from art school, I had a great sense of style - as did The Beatles and the Stones - and I enjoyed projecting that. Image, attitude, great music and great lyrics - that was the '60s.

The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s.

I'd always had a big thing for the '60s.

I always wanted to make aliens that looked like '60s aliens.

I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

We passed the hash pipe and played our Doors tapes.

You can't be glued in the '60s. Walking around, going up the pub or popping to Tesco in a hunting jacket.

I only wear vintage clothing. I'm pretty obsessed with things in the '60s, like fashion and music, too.

When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.

The outburst of sexual freedom in the '60s was bound to happen because the '50s were so oppressing. You had to live that way; women had to be like this - it was all locked into a false reality.

Something I miss terribly from the '60s - the most important phrase in the English language was, 'I got hung up.' Somebody says they got hung up, it's unassailable, you know? You don't go near that. Whoa! I know what that can be like.

'Mary Poppins,' the movie, was an object of mockery if you were a student in the '60s, something to be laughed at.

There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid.

The Beach Boys have always been a part of the '60s spectrum, with The Beatles and that kind of thing. They were a part of the music business like everyone else. And they did quite well as a singing group, and I finished a lot of good records, and I'm very proud of them.

I was never a 'bad' kid, but I did get into minor juvenile trouble. Look, I grew up in Brooklyn. This was the '60s, and the neighborhood was rapidly changing and not without its problems. All the kids of the neighborhood 'did their thing,' breaking windows and the like. I was no different.

In the '60s, I thought golf was bourgeois, so I didn't play at all for 20 years.

It wasn't that expectations changed. But [teens] went from general expectations of success to having no idea of the right thing to do. In the '60s there was a strong prejudice against careerism. We were self-indulgent and self-destructive.

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

I built my [early] career on negative reviews. There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square. They hated my movies. You could never have that happen today. Critics are way too hip.

I'm sick of '60s nostalgia. I've been to clubs in New York where it's just like the Fillmore East. And I thought I hated that then.

I grew up listening to the 60's and 70's... storytellers and poets.

It was part of being a girl in the '60s that you were creative.

We was on our way to fame, got matching suits and Beatle boots.

All the people at university were very aristocratic - except me, because I was on scholarship. And everyone there voluntarily wore suits and ties every day. And this was in the '60s!