Quotes of Hippy - somelinesforyou

“ Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike — I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam. ”

- Spiro T. Agnew

“ 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

“ You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems. ”

- David Lee Roth

“ Hippies are like jeans. They never die; they just fade. ”

- Unknown

“ A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing. ”

- Mary McCarthy

“ I became aware of Gamble And Huff, the whole Philadelphia sound and the work Norman Whitfield was doing with The Temptations. It wasn't just party music anymore. It had a message. That's how I got into black music while my friends were becoming hippies. ”

- Arthur Baker

“ My parents are both redheads, so they knew I was going to be a redhead. They just thought Bryce Canyon was very strong and it was red. And they thought it was beautiful. So they named me Bryce. And Dallas is where I was conceived. My parents are hippies. ”

- Bryce Dallas Howard

“ The sad think about the Sixties was the weak-mindedness of the so-called radicals and the way that they managed to get co-opted. I think one of the things that helped that happen was LSD. It's the only chemical known to mankind that will covert a hippy to a yuppie. ”

- Frank Zappa

“ The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it "freedom," but in the final analysis "freedom" is a purely negative goal. It just says something is bad. Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy… ”

- Robert Pirsig
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