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Quotes About Counterculture

We are young,beautiful scum,pissed off with the world…We are the suicide of the non-generation.We are as far away from anything in the 80s as possible, e.g. 80s' pop automation, the long running saga of the whimsical pop essay and the intrinsic musical sculptures of post-modernism…We are the only young kids in UK Channel Boredom to realise the future is in tight trousers, dyed hair and NOT the baggy loose attitude scum fuck retard zerodom of Madchester
~ Simon Price
I was a rebellious adolescent. It was the '60s. Everyone was rebellious. I hated high school.
~ George Dyson
The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.
~ Arto Lindsay
Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.
~ Walter Becker
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
I've always said that punk is a time and money thing. You can only be punk if you're poor and you're young. It's for the poor, it's for the young.
~ Sharon Needles
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
~ Bob Dylan
Q: Why is the roach clip called a roach clip? A: Because "pot holder" was taken.
~ Scott McNeely
What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
~ Ayelet Waldman
There were two things I wanted to be: an actor and a hippie.
~ Dennis Christopher
I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
~ Patricia Arquette
I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.
~ Steve Earle
I'm a hippie child of the '60s. What drives me crazy about mass media entertainment is that it's so often devoid of any ideas.
~ James Lapine
I was in my hippie stage. It was tough for my father. First it was the long hair, then the bubbles.
~ Tom Noddy
I was a political hippie.
~ Conchata Ferrell
I wasn't a Deadhead, and I didn't follow a band around, but I definitely was an old hippie.
~ Conchata Ferrell
I was a beatnik in the '50s before the hippies came along.
~ Charles Manson
Hippies are so phoney and fake.
~ George Harrison
My parents were hippies. I'm the eldest of eight children.
~ Caitlin Moran
My family were pretty big hippies.
~ Sam Heughan
I've always despised the hippies.
~ John Lydon
My parents are definitely reformed hippies.
~ Alison Brie
My parents were hippies.
~ Rachel Kushner
I was a huge punker growing up.
~ Machine Gun Kelly