“There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time.” WorldLongAgeLastsMiddlePeriodsCreatingLong TimeJazzGoldenSixtyInnovatorsGolden AgeCreating Things Author:Sonny Rollins
“One of the most helpful things I introduced (and of very considerable consequence to Canadians) was my ultimate success in persuading my colleagues (after continuing battle)to reduce the qualifying age for aged pensioners from seventy to sixty-five over a five year period.” YearsAgeFivePeriodsBattleConsequenceUltimateFive YearsHelpfulSixtyContinuingColleaguesSeventiesPersuadingQualifyingUltimate Success Book:Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage Source: Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage
“It is interesting to note that the best periods of Italian Horror films came out of the Sixties, when Italy was enjoying a carnival period of phenomenal optimism, and the shadowy side surfaced with all of its attendant dark, beautiful, baroque, catholic symbolism.” BeautifulFilmEnjoySidesDarkInterestingPeriodsHorrorOptimismCatholicNotesItalianSixtyPhenomenalSymbolismHorror FilmCarnivalsBaroque Author:Barbara Steele
“The cultural products of America from this period [ fifties and sixties] are like a vision of paradise or something. I find it utterly intoxicating.” AmericaVisionProductsPeriodsParadiseSixty Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“I did LSD and peyote in the late Sixties, before I got into cocaine. That was concurrent with my change from a straight comic to the album and counterculture period, and those drugs served their purpose. They helped open me up.” PurposePeriodsDrugLateAlbumsComicSixtyCocaineLsdCounterculturePeyote Author:George Carlin
“I watch a sort of primitive form of the recommodification machine around my friends and myself in sixties, and it took about two years for this clumsy mechanism to get and try to sell us The Monkees. In 1977, it took about eight months for a slightly faster more refined mechanism to put punk in the window of Holt Renfrew. It's gotten faster ever since. The scene in Seattle that Nirvana came from: as soon as it had a label, it was on the runways of Paris.There's no grace period, so that's a way in which I see us losing the interstitial.” WayTryingYearsTwoFormWatchesGraceMonthsPeriodsSceneLosingMy FriendsWindowMachinesSellsEightLabelsFasterParisTwo YearsMechanismPunkPrimitiveSixtyRefinedClumsySeattleRunway Author:William Gibson