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.
Hippie Quotes, Sayings, and Phrases


Hippie Quotes on Music
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
Hippies on Activism

Hippie Activism Quotes
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
Hippie Philosophy

Hippie Quotes on Philosophy
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
Hippies and Life

Hippie Quotes on Life
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
Hippies on Love

Hippie Quotes About Love
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
Hippies on Freedom

Hippie Quotes on Freedom
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
This is such a memory. I can’t believe I remember most of these! lol
It shows my age! ana
lol, mine too!
Wow, some of these really take me back a few years! (I know, I know – it’s more than a few years.) 😆
my blog really ages me!! 🙂
Hello, the whole thbing is going fine here and ofcourse every one is sharing facts, that’s genuinely good, keep up writing.
I love to read quotes…especially ones new to me! Sending peace! ~Sherry
So glad you enjoyed them Sherry
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