#woodstock

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

#bit #could #creatures #did #envy

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again. ↗

— Ang Lee

#age #became #collective #event #glorified

Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick. ↗

— Johnny Rivers

#even #everybody #got #mud #out

But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush. ↗

— John Sebastian

#change #clothes #couple #did #guitars

I was living in Woodstock for a long time, and I thought, I got to get out of here, man. ↗

— Jules Shear

#got #here #i #living #long

Describing Woodstock as the "big bang," I think that's a great way to describe it, because the important thing about it wasn't how many people were there or that it was a lot of truly wonderful music that got played. ↗

— David Crosby

#bang #because #big #big bang #describe

Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#chicago #claim #demonstration #everyone #felt

I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#average #average person #dead #grateful #grateful dead