The embodiment of youth in the 1960s, the hippie subculture proved to be one of the most influential and proactive groups in American history, culminating at Woodstock. Shaping the face of music, culture, and politics in the 1960s and beyond, their wave of protest and fresh ideas has become a standard for youth all over the world. Producing some of the most famous quotes pertaining to peace and music, hippie quotes are forever ingrained in the lexicon of peace, youth, and revolt. Here is a collection of the best hippie quotes ever documented.

Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.

-Satchel Paige

We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first- rock and roll or Christianity.

-John Lennon

Do you believe in rock ‘n roll? Can music save your mortal soul?

-Don McLean

Down through all of eternity the crying of humanity, tis’ then when the hurdy gurdy man comes singing songs of love.

-Donovan

Do you believe in magic? Believe in the magic of a young girl’s soul? Believe in the magic of rock ‘n roll? Believe in the magic that can set you free?

-The Lovin’ Spoonful

The New York State Freeway’s closed, man. Far out!

-Arlo Guthrie

Good morning! What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000.

-Wavy Gravy at Woodstock

Let the sound take you away…

-Steppenwolf

There was a band playing in my head, and I felt like getting high

-Neil Young

We all sang the songs of peace

-Melanie

We all got up to dance. Oh, but we never got the chance!

-Don McLean

You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems.

-David Lee Roth

Love is a friendship set to music.

-Joseph Campbell

There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.

-Jim Morrison

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

-Abbie Hoffman

If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.

-Eldridge Cleaver

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

-Mahatma Ghandi

Never doubt that a small group of thoughful, committed individuals can change the world, indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.

-Margaret Meade 


He who takes a stand is often wrong, but he who fails to take a stand is always wrong. 


-Anonymous

They won’t give peace a chance, that’s just a dream some of us had

-Joni Mitchell

Hell no, we won’t go!

-Anti-war chant

Question Authority!

-Unknown

If I’m free, it’s because I’m always running.


-Jimi Hendrix

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. 


-Carl Jung

Mother, should I trust the government?

-Pink Floyd

We all want to change the world.

-Beatles

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. 


-Alan Watts

You’re either on the bus or off the bus.


-Ken Kesey

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”

-Jack Kerouac

Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages.

-William S. Burroughs

When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

-George Harrison

Old hippies don’t die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.

-Joseph Gallivan

Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a thousand invisible members of the turned-on underground. Persons whose lives are tuned in to their inner vision, who are dropping out of the TV comedy of American Life.

-Timothy Leary

All I’m gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.


-Jimi Hendrix

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves. 


-Carl Jung

Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.

-John Lennon

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.


-Bob Marley

His hair has the long jesuschrist look. He is wearing the costume clothes. But most of all, he now has a very tolerant and therefore withering attitude toward all those who are still struggling in the old activist political ways…while he, with the help of psychedelic chemicals, is exploring the infinite regions of human consciousness.

-Tom Wolfe

Purple Haze all in my brain, lately things don’t seem the same. Actin’ funny but I don’t know why. ‘Scuse me while I kiss the sky.

-Jimi Hendrix

Your mind is like a parachute, it doesn’t work unless it’s open. 


-Jordan Maxwell

Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope.

-Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers

If you can remember the ’60s, then you weren’t there.

-Unknown

One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small. And the ones that mother gives you don’t do anything at all. Go ask Alice, when she’s ten feet tall.

-Jefferson Airplane

My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.

-Timothy Leary

I get by with a little help from my friends, get high with a little help from my friends.

-The Beatles

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.


-Joseph Campbell

Make Love, Not War

-Unknown

Love is all you need.

-Beatles

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours. 


-Unknown

Make Love, Not War

-Unknown

I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not tin this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it’s beautiful.

-Frederick E. Perl

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.

-Erica Jong

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep on watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it”

-John Lennon

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

-Kahlil Gibran

Made up my mind to make a new start. Going to California with an aching in my heart. Someone told me there’s a girl out there with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair.

-Led Zeppelin

Carry on, love is coming. Love is coming to us all.

-CS&N

War is over, if you want it. 


-John Lennon

If you want to be free, be free, because there’s a million things to be.

-Cat Stevens

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. …You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

-Jim Morrison

Got to get back to the land and set my soul free.

-Joni Mitchell/CS&N

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 Guthrie

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

-Jim Morrison

Paranoia strikes deep into your life it will creep. It starts when you’re always afraid. You step out of line, the man come and take you away.

-Buffalo Springfield

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, Live the life you’ve always imagined.


-Henry David Thoreau 


We can change the world, rearrange the world. It’s dying – if you believe in justice. It’s Dying – if you believe in freedom. It’s Dying – let a man live his own life. It’s Dying – rules and regulations, who needs them! Open up the door.

-Crosby, Stills & Nash