Haight-Ashbury Quotes

I've always despised the hippies.

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.

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I'm just an old hippie. You know, peace and love.

Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.

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

The Grateful Dead always had their iconography down pat.

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

I don't even know what a hippy is. I mean, hippy is an evolution of the Sixties movement. A time when people were trying to make a difference, trying to write songs that were political. People grow old. The hippy camp kind of breaks off into different sects.

I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.

I was a little too young to be a hippie.

The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.

I grew up in that era of Hendrix and Joplin and The Doors, and the Summer of Love and Haight-Ashbury, and even the Panthers. That was my era; that's what I was into.

L.A.'s hippies are actually quite scary - more like Hell's Angels than the Haight-Ashbury hippies of San Francisco.

I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically aligned with that whole mentality, the whole ideology of that generation, the music, the culture, the behavior.

We came out in the midst of the hippie hangover. All this mellow music.

Basically, I was a hippie and still am a flower child.

I've known Chicago for 50 years; we used to play shows at the Avalon Ballroom.

Hippies? Why, I'm the original.

If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair, if you're going to San Francisco, you're gonna meet some gentle people there.

Yes, I was a hippy - absolutely a hippy.

I was never a hippy, per se.

In the wake of the San Francisco scene, ears were alive. It was a listening generation.

I was totally romanticizing the idea of Los Angeles when the Doors, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young were hanging out there.

Even though my father had a really successful career before the '60s, that kind of insane pop-culture splash that happened was so massive. People hear the sitar and immediately think, you know, flying carpets and tie-dyed T-shirts and wafting smoke.