Summer of Love Quotes

I would love to have played in the '60s. Now that would have been fun.

I grew up in the 1970s, and my friends and I felt very keenly that we had missed the '60s. We were bummed out about it.

When I went to San Francisco in that cold late spring of 1967, I did not even know what I wanted to find out, and so I just stayed around a while and made a few friends.

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

The original Beach Boys are Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, Mike Love, and Alan Jardine.

You can't recreate the '60s.

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.

I've always felt like if I was going to be born any other time that it would be during the '60s or definitely during Woodstock.

The 60s will be remembered for The Beatles, Andy Warhol and Me!

I don't really remember much about the '60s at all. You know, 1970 is the first year I remember pretty well.

When I was a kid, for me, the '60s seemed so far away. But I was actually born in the late '60s.

There's the historical part of The Beach Boys' music; it's pretty incredible, pretty vast and pretty varied too.

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

My parents came to San Francisco when they were probably 19 or 20, in the mid-'60s.

The 1960s: A lot of people remember hating President Lyndon Baines Johnson and loving Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, depending on the point of view. God rest their souls.

I'm the lead singer of the Beach Boys and an ambassador of this amazing music that touched a generation.

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.

Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging on street corners all over San Francisco. Their hair is tangled and their bare feet are thick and gray as shoes. We're sick of them.

I see The Stone Roses in '89 as Technicolor: we were all about joy and possibilities of life.

Being a hippy was the most natural thing in the world to me.

I went through bits of the 60s and thought myself a bit of a hippy.

Describing Woodstock as the 'big bang,' I think that's a great way to describe it, because the important thing about it wasn't how many people were there or that it was a lot of truly wonderful music that got played.

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

I feel that if your soul was branded by the sixties, you never lost the brand. It's like going into a nightclub and having your hand stamped so that you don't have to come back but you can come back.

I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.