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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren't going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time. -- Janis Joplin
Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos. -- David Lee Roth
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
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
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
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
My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg. -- Patti Smith
The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will. -- Herbert Marcuse
As I became very conscious and more aware of things I got very into the beatniks and that kind of stuff. They were very important to me for a few years. -- Marc Maron

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