Tag - Beatniks Quotes

Discover the most inspirational quotes from the Beatniks Quotes. Here, you’ll find a diverse collection of motivation, wisdom, love, laughter, or a deeper understanding of life, our curated selection of quotes has something for everyone.
Perfect for fans and those looking for motivation, our collection of Beatniks Quotes will inspire and resonate with you. Beatniks Quotes

Richie Havens

We had been reading about these beatniks who hung out or lived in Greenwich Village, and we wanted to find out what a ‘beatnik’ was, and so a friend and I went right to the source. What we learned, of course, was that beatniks were mostly artists.

– Richie Havens

Richard Belzer

When I was a kid in the ’50s, I was very enamored of beatniks and… a kind of dark sensibility.

– Richard Belzer

Peter Fonda

It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents’ generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents’ generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks.

– Peter Fonda

Janis Joplin

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.

– Janis Joplin

Christopher Moore

From Dickens’s cockneys to Salinger’s phonies, from Kerouac’s beatniks to Cheech and Chong’s freaks, and on to hip hop’s homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.

– Christopher Moore

David Lee Roth Poetry

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

– David Lee Roth