The Sixties/Quotes

"Chinese people were fighting in the park We tried to help them fight, no one appreciated that Martin X was mad when they outlawed bell bottoms Ten years later they were sharing the same cell ''I shouted out, "Free the Expo '67" Till they stepped on my hair, and they told me I was fat"

- They Might Be Giants, "Purple Toupee"

"Come gather 'round people wherever you roam And admit that the waters around you have grown And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone If your time to you is worth savin' ''Then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin'."

- Bob Dylan, "The Times They Are A-Changin'"

"There is a Chinese curse which says "May he live in interesting times." Like it or not, we live in interesting times."

- Robert F. Kennedy, Day of Affirmation speech, 1966

""We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.""

- John Lennon