“‘Gimme Shelter’ was very much influenced by the violence in the US and the general uncertainty politically and so on.”— Mick Jagger, independent.ie
“Mr. Van Driessen: This is the '90s, people. A '9' upside down is a '6,' so let's turn the '90s upside down and recapture the spirit of the '60s, okay? Butt-head: Watch those flashbacks, dude.”— Mike Judge, Butt-head, Mike Judge, imdb.com
“Simone Gerhardt: You know what depresses me? I missed the '60s—free love, drop acid, Woodstock. Wake up one day, decide you want to call yourself Flower Rainblossom, you just call yourself Flower Rainblossom. Mike Milligan: Yeah, but the '70s were always coming, like a—what do you...A hangover. And…”— Steve Blackman, Simone Gerhardt, Rachel Keller, imdb.com
“You know, I lived in this country at a time when we had segregation. I was in the middle of all the civil rights fights in the '60s and the '70s. And thank God we've gotten rid of official discrimination.”— Walter Mondale, realclearpolitics.com
“I was of the '60s, the sexual revolution. That was the Summer of Love, man. What the hell are you—well, you can't say what it really was—the summer of lust. But the idea is that to do it like, you know, just walk up to somebody and say hey, good morning, and grab your nipple—it's like something, you…”— Danny DeVito, npr.org
“We saw ourselves as anthropologists from the twenty-first century inhabiting a time module set somewhere in the dark ages of the 1960s. On this space colony we were attempting to create a new paganism and a new dedication to life as art.”— Timothy Leary, books.google.com