Quotes About Counterculture

Does anyone recall hippies designing things for Generation X? Does anyone recall the elegance of that? How design was about making things simpler?

I read R.D. Laing, I read Victor Frankl. Anything by Ken Kesey or Peter Matthiessen, Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, Alan Ginsberg, R. Crumb, Bob Dylan. These sacred texts are passed from one hand to another like relics of a religious past or harbingers of a new faith.

It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around -- the music and the ideas.

I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like elitism.

In the '60s, the Sunset Strip became insane. The sidewalks and the traffic were jammed. It was a renaissance.

I mean, rock music's got to be something that your mom would hate—if you want it to be really satisfying. We made music that moms would really hate

the cover of Land Speed Record is a photo of the coffins of the first eight soldiers killed in Vietnam; like many punks, the members of Hüsker Dü actually agreed with Sixties counterculture values but despised the hippies for selling out those values. "We're doing the same thing that the peace movement did in the Sixties," Mould said, "but the way they did it didn't work.

No one could explain why a punk would ever follow any mainstream rule about how many songs you could put on a single.

punk rock is unique and individual and is not for everybody. So almost by definition it can't be popular.

For a while, there effectively was no underground. "I thought that was the end of what you might call punk rock," says Peter Prescott, "because punk rock is unique and individual and is not for everybody. So almost by definition it can't be popular.

I have no doubt that all that Hubbard LSD all of us had taken had a big effect on the birth of Silicon Valley

In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special.

I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.

I'm a child of the Sixties.

It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.

Early skateboard culture had a lot of skulls.

I was a cool skateboard fan, who didn't like the system.

I'd always loved what went on in skateboarding. I'd never skated myself, but I loved the graphics - I really liked the rebelliousness of it.

I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.

I suppose you could say I love outlaw American culture.

always courting disaster to experience the biggest high. I'd been living the deranged life. I felt so nihilistic, yet why hadn't I just tuned in and dropped out? Instead, I followed Jim Morrison's credo, the credo of Coleridge and, at one point, Wordsworth, the credo of self-discovery through self-destruction I so willfully subscribed to until this moment:

I wanna say hello to all the ex-hippies tonight. I've never been a hippie myself but I'm an honorary hippie.

Despite Coach's admonishment, some of us on the team smoked marijuana. I had been exposed to it back in New York and had occasionally indulged with my friends. At college, though, using it seemed hipper and more of a counterculture statement than just a way of getting high. Plus, it helped with my migraines, which were becoming more frequent.