Hair (musical)

Hair is a 1979 film about a Vietnam war draftee who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to the army induction center. The hippies introduce him to their countercultural lifestyle of marijuana, LSD, "be-ins", and protests.

Directed by Miloš Forman, Written by Michael Weller based on the stage musical (1968) by Gerome Ragni and James Rado.

Quotes

• I've been to India
  And saw the yogi light
  In South America
  The Indian smoke glows bright
  I'm reincarnated and so are we all
  And in this lifetime
  We'll rise before we fall
  • Donna

Chorus

• [singing] This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius, the age of Aquarius!

Jeanie Ryan

• Of course I'm crazy! We're all crazy. Let's shake on it.

Hippie

• The draft is white people sending black people to make war on the yellow people to defend the land they stole from the red people!

Woof, Hud, Berger

• Oh say, can you see / my eyes? If you can / then my hair's too short.

Dialogue

Berger: Where you from?

Claude: Oklahoma.

Jeannie: Hey, listen. I know what it's like. I used to be from Kansas myself.

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Prison Psychiatrist: And men?

Woof: What do you mean...?

Prison Psychiatrist: You have any sexual attraction towards men?

Woof: You mean if I'm a homosexual or something like that?

Prison Psychiatrist: Yeah.

Woof: Well, I wouldn't kick Mick Jagger out of my bed, but uh, I'm not a homosexual, no.

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Berger: Bukowski!

Claude: Yes, Sergeant!

Berger: Let's move it out!

Claude: Yes, Sergeant!

Berger: Double time, soldier.

Claude: Yes, Sergeant! (Claude and Berger walk out of the barracks) Sir?

Berger: In the car, soldier!

Claude: Yes, Sergeant!

Berger: Are you an asshole, soldier?

Claude: No, Sergeant!

Berger: That's too bad, because I am.

External links

• Hair quotes at the Internet Movie Database