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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That`s all I ever wanted. Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock `n` roll band. They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me. And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that`s the trouble.

- Janis Joplin

I was a beatnik in the `50s before the hippies came along.

- Charles Manson

The problem with beards is the association with the `60s and `70s '” the beatnik and hippie movement, the anti-establishment attitudes that were communicated by people in those years by people wearing beards. It`s guilt by association, regardless of whether they were part of that.

- Arthur Jones

The problem with beards is the association with the `60s and `70s - the beatnik and hippie movement, the anti-establishment attitudes that were communicated by people in those years by people wearing beards.

- Arthur Jones

The problem with beards is the association with the `60s and `70s - the beatnik and hippie movement, the anti-establishment attitudes that were communicated by people in those years by people wearing beards. It`s guilt by association, regardless of whether they were part of that,

- Arthur Jones