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