Fifties Quotes

I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.

One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties.

I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.

If I really had to pinpoint my happiest days out of the United States, I'd choose those Fifties military days in Britain, particularly my time in South Ruislip. I had a ball.

How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!