Flower Power 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.

I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.

I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.

Woodstock - I didn't see anybody play, except when I was standing backstage waiting to go on, because it was so muddy. And the weather was so horrible, you literally couldn't get there except by helicopter.

I feel that the social revolution of the sixties is like a revolving door that came our way, and then left. It's back again.

On our show, I must tell you, it was... the 60s was a period of time when everything was free love. People made love to each other. It was a very open life, you know?

The hippy movement was a failure. All hippies around now just represent complete apathy. There's a million good reasons why the thing failed, OK. But the only thing we've got to live with is that it failed.

I kind of feel stuck in the late-Sixties and early-Seventies.

Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole.

The '60s was a time of unthinkabilities.

The '60s is one of my favourite eras in general. I love '60s music, and I've always wanted to do a period film.

I'm hugely inspired by the '60s and the '70s. I just love the music of that time and the overall freedom of that era. I love that the idea of clashing didn't really exist. You could mix prints on prints, you could mix fabrics and colors - and it was more about the way you felt than about the label and trends. That's something that I've always gravitated towards.

I like being in the '60s.

When I grew up and went to school, all the cool kids were in Carhartts and Mudd boots, and they were listening to the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers and driving Volkswagens.

I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead.

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

I think the '60s were a time where they were singing about what was going on around them.

I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs

I've always despised the hippies.

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

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

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

You can't recreate the '60s.

My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.