Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Stein

A thing we always talk about in today's culture is that nobody is an outsider - everybody's kind of a hipster on the inside.

Nina Hagen

I'm from East Berlin. I grew up in the Bertold Brecht, Kurt Weil tradition, also in the old hippie tradition.

Rick Ross

Look you dead in the face Now tell me how good does it taste

Rick Ross

Regardless of how it goes down, life goes on.

Eddie Griffin

Add the hippie-rock-drugs atmosphere circa 1970, and you get Clinton's rechristened group Parliament, decked out in weird costumes, singing cosmic lyrics and laying down amazing funk lines - also lines of other kinds. One observer describes Maggot Brain ... one of those guys with super technique that took a lot of acid and just went out from there.

Jonathan Lethem

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

Jonah Lomu

I have a stab wound on my left hip and one on my thigh and a slash mark across my right calf. I have a bottle stab wound on my left calf.

Jonah Hill

I'm a big hip hop fan.

Jonah Goldberg

When I see hipsters wearing Mao hats or Lenin T-shirts, I'm grateful. It's like truth-in-labeling. For now I know you are: Woefully ignorant, morally stunted, purposively asinine, or all three.

Justin Timberlake

If you asked me what pop is right now. I'd say hip hop.

Terence McKenna

The 'person' is not an interchangeable part. The 'citizen' is. ... The person is harking back to a pre-print model. It's what the hippies were.

Rick Riordan

Zeus looked like a really buff, really angry hippie.

Sonia Rykiel

I was influenced by the hippie movement in San Francisco and by the feminist movement, which had arrived in Paris.

Rob Sheffield

It takes only one bad amp to turn your ears to oatmeal: That's how old hippies became Yanni fans.

Robert M. Pirsig

Cliches and stereotypes such as "beatnik" or "hippie" have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be. But one does not convert individuals into mass people with the simple coining of a mass term.

Walter Isaacson

The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently,” he said. "The hierarchical systems of the East Coast, England, Germany, and Japan do not encourage this different thinking. The sixties produced an anarchic mind-set that is great for imagining a world not yet in existence.

William S. Burroughs

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

Woody Guthrie

Nobody living can ever stop me. As I go walking my freedom highway. Nobody living can make me turn back. This land was made for you and me.

Woody Allen

I sued American Apparel because they calculatingly took my name, my likeness and image and used them publicly to promote their business.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we're really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?

William Faulkner

Civilization begins with distillation

Zacky Vengeance

I like hip-hop, I like yay music.

Wyclef Jean

I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today

Willie Nelson

When I left Nashville I went to Texas because that's where I came from, and because I was playing in Texas a lot in different places. And I saw hippies and rednecks drinking beer together and smoking dope together and having a good time together and I knew it was possible to get all groups of people together - long hair, short hair, no hair - and music would bring them together.

Yelawolf

Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.

Yelawolf

Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.