Top 44 Quotes About Hippy
#1. In the early '70s, coming out of the '60s, it was very hippy or it was very uniform, like The Beatles all wearing the same suit. Into the '70s, it became much more about a personal style. You had the glam period, which was a lot of fun, and then you went into punk.
John Varvatos
#2. I was the first f****** hippy to enter this business, you know ... I was one of the first girls to say I don't give a f*** about this whole supermodel thing.
Helena Christensen
#3. Clothing that placed them somewhere along the hippy/anarchist/punk rock/funked-out artist continuum.
Cheryl Strayed
#4. Meditation, especially for people who don't know very much about it and think it's this very hippy dippy thing, can really be powerful, terrifying even, as it lifts the rug up on your subconscious and the dust comes flying out.
Amanda Palmer
#5. There's Buddha. If ever I met a hippy-slacker-God, it's Buddha. Just yesterday I had this strange run in with him. 'Buddha bless you,' he says to me. Out of the blue. So I ask him, 'Why do you refer to yourself in the third person?' He smiled at me, his eyes bloodshot and half-closed.
Dylan Callens
#6. God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last.
Charles Bukowski
#7. I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral Scratch' by the Buzzcocks, or 'Hippy Hippy Shake' by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background.
Billy Childish
#8. I have literally just been in this place of zero fear. I just believe, as totally hippy bullsh*t as that sounds, anything's possible if you're willing to grab it and make it your own.
Erin Wasson
#9. I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.
Shia Labeouf
#10. I hate the word 'hippy'. I hate a lot of people, and hippies don't do that!
Shannon Hoon
#11. No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it's very open; my parents are both hippies.
Shia Labeouf
#12. Clean energy is hippy power. But its also cowboy power, it's rancher power, it's Appalachian power.
Van Jones
#13. People seem to like this image of me being all boho and hippy. It's either that or I'm down on my luck, I've got no money, the work's dried up.
Minnie Driver
#14. Hippy is still the closest word to happy.
DC Gallin
#15. I went through bits of the 60s and thought myself a bit of a hippy.
Julie Walters
#16. Richard was in heavy, heavy costume, he could hardly sit, you know, and I turned up and they put me in two layers of silk, so I played him much lighter - you know, floating around in a pair of slippers, a bit of a hippy.
Michael Gambon
#17. I grew up on the East Coast and was going to go to an Ivy League School, but at the last minute I decided to be a hippy. It was the protest movements on the war, peace movements were going on at our university. It was a fantastic time.
Michael Douglas
#18. David Bowie emerged as a rock star in the late '60s. And as Ken Tucker wrote, "In the face of the hippy era's sincerity, intimacy and generosity, Bowie presented irony, distance and self-absorption. His song 'Changes' announced the arrival of a new counterculture," unquote.
David Bowie
#19. I think of myself as kind of a hippy. Everyone around me says that's not the impression they get. They think I'm sassy. Apparently, I think I'm nicer than I really am.
Cecily Strong
#20. Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.
Patricia Arquette
#21. I'm a big fan of Kate Moss's style - no-one nails boho meets hippy chic like she does.
Kristin Cavallari
#22. Being a hippy was the most natural thing in the world to me.
David Crosby
#23. The history of colonisation is replete with tales of happy, hippy natives dancing around half-naked, taking fantastic drugs and having as much sex as they could wave a stick at.
Victor L. Machin
#24. The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute.
John Lydon
#26. I'm actually a hippy in real life. I had three dreadlocks on the back of my head once. They were spawning.
Jack O'Connell
#27. I've always had an eye for nature, but it's the sort of thing to keep quiet about, because I don't want to come across as a mad hippy. But it makes sense to appreciate those things.
Jarvis Cocker
#28. The hippy movement was a failure. All hippies around now just represent complete apathy. There's a million good reasons why the thing failed, OK. But the only thing we've got to live with is that it failed.
Joe Strummer
#29. When I was a young hippy, I thought marching naked would be a strong protest, but I don't think it would be as effective now.
Germaine Greer
#30. Gonzo, the enlightened hippy-biker island god, was a hermit in every sense of the word; a hermit crab and this island was his shell.
Jonathan Dunne
#31. Hippy, you think everything is a conspiracy. Everything is!
Ed Harris
#34. Sometimes we call it 'Extra Chunky,' too."
"Why's that?" she finally asked. "Because," DeForrest said, barely able to contain his mirth, "when you run over a hippy with this thing, extra chunky is about all that's left.
David Wellington
#35. At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.
Imelda Staunton
#36. We are all a little bit hippy, a little bohemian. We take that from the culture we knew, from the '70s and the '80s.
Nicolas Maduro
#37. I used to do that routine about my daughter being a hippy with the dirty sneakers and dirty blue jeans, but why a beard? And you know people would actually come to me and say, 'Does your daughter really have a beard?' I'd say, 'No, I made her shave it, but I let her keep the mustache.
Jean Carroll
#38. Sabbath were a hippy band. We were into peace.
Ozzy Osbourne
#39. L.A. interests me, the whole band scene and relaxed carefree feel, but it does not mean you have to dress like a hippy.
Raf Simons
#40. If anything I consider myself non-violent, I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy.
Rick James
#41. I was brought up with a whole bunch of cousins in the Wye Valley during the hippy days of the 1970s.
Saul David
#43. I wanna say hello to all the ex-hippies tonight. I've never been a hippie myself but I'm an honorary hippie.
Bob Dylan
#44. Fuck the drug war. Dropping acid was a profound turning point for me, a seminal experience. I make no apologies for it. More people should do acid. It should be sold over the counter.
George Carlin
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