Quotes About Beatnik

And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!

I'm from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And at that time, I was a jazz critic, and I was always thinking, theorizing about what makes great art or what's important in art.

Jack Kerouac was cool because he had no idea he was.

I was a beatnik in the '50s before the hippies came along.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

At 14 and 15, I was sort of my town's resident beatnik.

I was never really a Mod. I thought I was more of a beatnik with the brown corduroy jacket, blue jeans, etc. I loved the music Mods liked, and I loved the clothes, but I didn't have any money to spend on them.

there was no beatnik movement in Germany because there were now no traditions to revolt against;

I settled down to long sweet sleeps, day-long meditations in the house, writing, and long walks around beloved old Manhattan a half hour subway ride away. I roamed the streets, the bridges, Times Square, cafeterias, the waterfront, I looked up all my poet beatnik friends and roamed with them, I had love affairs with girls in the Village, I did everything with that great mad joy you get when you return to New York City.

I think of Dean Moriarty.

well, lackadaddy.

The bombastic bushy-bearded beatnik bard promised land reforms, social justice and pickled plantains on every plate—the standard stipends of welfare-waffled Commie commissars.

My older brother, Jake, and I had a bohemian childhood. My parents are deeply unconventional people from the beatnik generation. They weren't married, and I thought that was normal. We called them by their first names.

Decisi di diventare un beatnik a tutti gli affetti[...]. Fumai tutta la marijuana che mi passava tra le mani, lessi Kerouac, ascoltai Bob Dylan e Roland Kirk e andai a vedere film francesi che non capivo.

My golden dream was to move to New York and live in the Village and become that cool rebel beatnik Jack Kerouac.

The new hipsters had cast aside the syndrome of alienation and despair that saddled many of their beatnik forebears.