1960s Quotes

I wanted to show how lightness was possible in the 1960s, but how life is more difficult in the 2000s.

I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.

I always wanted to make a cover album consisting of obscure psychedelic music from the 1960s - all re-shaped and customized, Ulver style.

In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasnt like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.

I was involved with Wells Fargo Bank as a consultant in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when I suggested to them that they develop a product that has become known as index funds.

The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.

I am a big fan of music and clothing style of the 1960s. Whether in England or the United States, I like everything from that time.

The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along.

This notion of public-school doors being barred to God would have confounded not only the founding fathers but also those who attended American public schools as recently as the early 1960s.

My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you'll see you had to be sharp onstage.

I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.

In the mid-1960s, as hard to believe as it may be now, choosing to go into academic philosophy was not an imprudent career choice. There were lots of academic jobs in philosophy then.

The generation that migrated to the West in the 1970s or 1960s has now lived more in the West than India, and India has changed so much. My parents fall into that category.

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

I think 1960s small-town America was very Lynchian. Everything was there, but underneath, everything was rumbling.

I'm really fascinated with anything that takes place between the 1920s up through the 1960s. In some ways it feels familiar, and in other ways it feels like it's from another planet.

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

Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.

But I'd say my best boss was Tom Barr, who was a partner at Cravath, Swain & Moore in the 1960s. It's because I learned so much from him.

[Las Vegas in the early 1960] was thrilling, exciting... I would describe it as very Parisian.

I remember that mathematicians were telling me in the 1960s that they would recognize computer science as a mature discipline when it had 1,000 deep algorithms. I think we've probably reached 500.

How can I be a part of the 1960s generation when I don't even remember any of it?

Hillary Clinton was a cute, smart chick in the 1960s.

Back in the 1960s Africa not only fed itself, it also exported food. Not anymore.

In the 1960s, I would have considered China with its CPC an ideologically more dynamic country than the Soviet Union. But the Soviet Union was strategically more threatening.

The endless newsreel clips of nuclear explosions that we saw on TV in the 1960s (were) a powerful incitement to the psychotic imagination, sanctioning *everything*.

During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.

It was only with the emergence of the Conceptualist approaches of the late 1960s that the opposition between artists using photography and photographers became explicit.

During the 1960s, we used twice as much oil as during the 1950s. And in each of those decades, more oil was consumed than in all of mankind's previous history.

I came into public life during the 1960s when a whole bunch of us believed in our ability to change the world. And we did a lot of things.

I'm gonna say that I have followed every presidential campaign since the campaign of President [John F.] Kennedy in 1960.

New York was the last place that my movies caught on. I didn't make underground movies in New York, and in the 1960s, they were very snobby about that, because the whole scene was here.

I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.

I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system.

Anytime someone says we're channelling 1960s, I'm like, I'm in, I love it.

Back in the 1960s, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary. I was at that age, about 14, and I was mesmerized.

My parents were older than normal when they had me, and had been very into the politics of the 1960s, so I was brought up in that atmosphere.

Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.

Under the system that we now have to nominate presidential candidates, for instance, I would prefer that we have a system that is closer to, say, the one we had in the 1960s.

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.

Since the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care.

Children, for whom suburban life was supposed to make wholesome little Johns and Wendys, became the acid-dropping, classroom-burning hippies of the 1960s.

Narragansett Bay waters are getting warmer -- 4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in the winter since the 1960s.

I can't think of a comparable level of cultural excitement about something since Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in the 1960s.

Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from the 1960s.

I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.

John Carlos provided the world with one of the most iconic images of the 1960s with his Black Power salute after a medal-winning performance at the 1968 summer games.

The sexual revolution of the 1960s was mostly a movement of young people. I felt that the so-called "free relationships" were overrated.