Hip Quotes

“Yesterday’s crime has consistently proven to be tomorrow’s recreation.”
― John Leland, Hip: The History: How the Quest for Authenticity Shaped Twentieth-Century American Pop Culture from Bohemia to Madison Avenue

“...the atomic bomb made burlesque of the future”
― John Leland, Hip: The History: How the Quest for Authenticity Shaped Twentieth-Century American Pop Culture from Bohemia to Madison Avenue

“There is something at stake any time we cross from one circle to another, a simultaneous relinquishing and hardening of the self.”
― John Leland, Hip: The History