Quote #63
You don't know what I'm all about Like killing cops and reading Kerouac
More from Jack Kerouac
- Once when Kerouac was high on psychedelics with Timothy Leary, he looked out the window and said, 'Walking on water wasn't built in a day.'…
- If you're working with words, it's got to be poetry. I grew up with Kerouac. If he hadn't wrote On The Road, the Doors would have never exi…
- Some times feeling like Holden Caulfield, sometimes Jack Kerouac
- The world that [Kerouac] trembling stepped out into in that decade was a bitter, gray one.
- Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.
- Kerouac was 'locked in the Cold War and the first Asian debacle' in 'the gray, chill, militaristic silence, [...] the intellective void [..…
- I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's.
- Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages.