Robert Hunter Quotes

The jam stuff doesn't appeal to me in general. My newfound love for the Dead came from Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia's songwriting, not the elaborate guitar solos. I'm a song person. Once it starts to break out of that structure and become loopy, it's uninteresting to me. ~ Colin Meloy

I'm not good at being lionized, and when I'm in 'Grateful Dead'-type situations, that happens. ~ Robert Hunter

Don't waste the breath to save your face, When you have done your best, And even more is asked of you, Let fate decide the rest. ~ Robert Hunter

The sky was yellow and the sun was blue... ~ Robert Hunter

Crippled but free, I was blind all the time I was learning to see. ~ Robert Hunter

There are times when you get hit upon, Try hard but you cannot give. Other times you'd gladly part, With what you need to live ~ Robert Hunter

Walk out of any doorway feel your way, feel your way like the day before Maybe you'll find direction around some corner where it's been waiting to meet you. ~ Robert Hunter

When I was just a little young boy, Papa said Son, you'll never get far, I'll tell you the reason if you want to know, 'cause child of mine, there isn't really very far to go. ~ Robert Hunter

Every song falls short of the glory of what a song could be. That's why the urge is there to start again and yet again. Often it's the fault of rhyme. I've discovered a hundred times that there just aren't enough rhymes to say what I wanted to say, so I said something else instead. Sometimes it was a better thing, but the thing I meant to say went unsaid. So there's an opening for another song. ~ Robert Hunter

Everything you gather is just one that you can lose. ~ Robert Hunter

Destroy yourself physically and morally and insist that all true brothers do likewise as an expression of unity. ~ Robert Hunter

Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair ~ Robert Hunter

When you get ready to vote, make sure you know what you are doing. ~ Robert Hunter

At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle. ~ Robert Hunter

There are things you can replace, and others you cannot. The time has come to weigh those things, this space is getting hot. ~ Robert Hunter

Without love in a dream it will never come true ~ Robert Hunter

I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools. ~ Robert Hunter

Let my inspiration flow, in token lines suggesting rhythm, that will not forsake me, till my tale is told and done ~ Robert Hunter

I don't believe there's any evidence that credit scoring is a risk factor. What is it about someone having a worse credit score that makes them a worse driver? (Insurers) can't answer that. ~ Robert Hunter

Ain't no time to hate, barely time to wait ~ Robert Hunter

When life looks like easy street there is danger at your door ~ Robert Hunter

If you can even manage to tell exactly what a song is about, all you do is put that song in a box forever, and it loses its evocative power. ~ Robert Hunter

Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world. ~ Robert Hunter

Sometimes we live no particular way but our own ~ Robert Hunter

Such a long, long time to be gone and a short time to be there ~ Robert Hunter

But never give your love, my friend, Unto a foolish heart ~ Robert Hunter

River gonna take me, Sing me sweet and sleepy,
Sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back home,
It's a far gone lullaby sung many years ago
Mama, Mama, many worlds I've come since I first left home ~ Robert Hunter

Let there be songs to fill the air. ~ Robert Hunter

It's better to wear seaweed socks than stick a melon in your brother's ear. ~ Robert Hunter

Hunter he had these big tins of crushed pineapple that he'd gotten from the army,' Garcia said, 'and i had this glove compartment full of plastic spoons, and we had this little cooperative scene, eating this crushed pineapple day after day and sleeping in the cars and walking around. ~ Blair Jackson

Comes a Time when the blind man takes your hand says DON'T YOU SEE? ~ Robert Hunter

Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub. ~ Robert Hunter

The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master ~ Robert Hunter

A song doesn't happen as a whole verse; it happens linearly, line by line, almost word by word, phrase by phrase. And if each phrase, each line, has a proper emotional feel and connects to the line before it and the line after it, the song will be doing what it should be doing. ~ Robert Hunter

Everything you cherish
Throws you over in the end
Thorns will grab your ankles
From the gardens that you tend. ~ Robert Hunter

There's a better way. There has to be education, and the education has to come from the poets and musicians, because it has to touch the heart rather than the intellect, it has to get in there deeply. ~ Robert Hunter

Outside major darkness where the circle is complete there's no fear that lovers born will ever fail to meet ~ Robert Hunter

In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given. ~ Robert Hunter

I got really, really sick with a spinal infection that put me in a hospital for a couple of months, and it was touch and go. I had my guitar with me, and as soon as I got well enough to play, there was nothing else to do in that hospital. The nurses would come in and request songs. ~ Robert Hunter

I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in it - with all I'm gonna really get out of that song. My greatest pleasure is to create it, not to record it, not to hear anyone else play it, though that can be nice too. ~ Robert Hunter

Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the sea of morning creep-very-softly mist ... and then sort of cascade tinkley-bell like (must I take you by the hand, every so slowly type) and then conglomerate suddenly into a peal of silver vibrant uncomprehendingly, blood singingly, joyously resoundingbells ... By my faith if this be insanity, then for the love of God permit me to remain insane. ~ Robert Hunter

Keep an eye to the future, and ear to the past, and after thinking it over notice nothing much lasts. ~ Robert Hunter

terms. The net effect is that I have created $30,000 in my asset column for which I am paid interest, just like a bank gets paid interest for the loans it makes. I was beginning to be a bank, and I loved it. Remember that rich dad said, "Be careful when you take on debt. If you take on debt personally, make sure it's small. If you take on large debt, make sure someone else is paying for it." In the language of the B and I side, I "laid off" my risk, or "hedged" my risk to another buyer. That is the game in the world of finance. This type of transaction is done all over the world. Yet wherever I go, people come up to me and say those magic words: "You can't do that here." What most small investors fail to realize is that many large commercial buildings are bought and sold exactly in the manner described above. Sometimes they go through a bank, but many times ~ Robert T. Kiyosaki

Within the blink of an eye, another waitress - this one giving her no more than a small smile and a "Here you are, shug" - has slipped her a ponderous mug of steaming coffee, along with some cream and sugar. Mona takes a sip, and she can immediately understand why it's talked about: it is rich and strong and faintly chocolatey, so good it induces a sigh of satisfaction. ~ Robert Jackson Bennett

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time. ~ Robert Winston

The way we treat certain people in public should sqaure with the way we talk about them in private There should not be double standard. ~ Robert E. Fisher

The eyes are the harbingers of love, and the first step of love is sight. ~ Robert Burton

Writing about the spiritual life is like making prints from negatives...Often it is the dark forest that makes us speak about the open field. Frequently prison makes us think about freedom, hunger helps us to appreciate food, and war gives us words for peace. Not seldom are our vision of the future born out of the sufferings of the present and our hope for others out of our own despair. Only few "happy endings" make us happy but often someone's careful ad honest articulation of the ambiguities, uncertainties, and painful conditions of life gives us new hope. The paradox is indeed that new life is born out of the pains of the old. ~ Robert Durback

I always imagine that I want to make art that is going to kill you,whether it's going to do it visually or physically, I'll take either way. ~ Robert Longo

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail. ~ Robert Mitchum

In a matter of some generations all the stupid ones will die out and those with your discipline will inherit the Earth ~ Robert A. Heinlein

He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration. ~ Robert Musil

When our lips parted, he sighed. "I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anything is possible. ~ Bijou Hunter

Also the fact that anything he does is seen and heard by the entire country, not just his actual audience or those who live in the region he happens to be in. ~ Robert Teeter

She was strikingly ignorant, but he had known that from the start. What he had not known was how quickly her ignorance would cease to seem charming and would begin to seem contemptible. ~ Robert Silverberg

If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration. ~ Robert Moses

As Herbert Stein commented in the 1980s, after having observed the process at close quarters for nearly half a century, businessmen "had learned to live with and accept most of the regulations." Disturbed only by new and unfamiliar regulations, "they regard the regulations they are used to as being freedom" (1984, 84). ~ Robert Higgs

But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the story end this way. I may be the last one, but I am the one still standing. I am the one turning to face the faceless hunter in the woods on an abandoned highway. I am the one not running but facing. Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity. And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield. ~ Rick Yancey

If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose? ~ Robert Breault

It's the sight of the dead...the teasing glimpse of what comes when you are no one. ~ Robert McDowell

Look in the mirror and stare at your eyes and say, "I can and will be successful." ~ Robert Cheeke

A year or so earlier I had been to the Sky River Rock Festival in rural Washington, where a dosen stone-broke freaks from Seattle Liberation Front had assembled a sound system that carried every small note of an acoustic guitar - even a cough or the sound of a boot drooping on the stage - to half-deaf acid victims huddled under bushes a half mile away.
But the best technicians available to the National DAs' convention in Vegas apparently couldn't handle it. Their sound system looked like something Ulysses S. Grant might have triggered up to addres his troops during the Siege of Vicksburg. The voices from up front crackled with a fuzzy, high-pitched urgency, and the delay was just enough to keep the words disconcertingly out of phaze with the speaker's gestures. (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, p. 73) ~ Hunter S. Thompson

I had become an inward being, and I walked as in an inward world; everything outside me became a dream; what I had understood till now became unintelligible. ~ Robert Walser

Oh, Ed!" Mom exclaimed. "It's a Victorian. ~ Robert Liparulo

It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power ... it's the goodness. ~ Robert Plant

I ope ya don't mind, Charlie, but I borrowed one a ya effs.'
'Ya did?'
'Yeah.' he smiled. 'I told 'im to start finkin' smart. ~ Robert Newton

Melissa Barak, an ex-City Ballet dancer and sometime choreographer, has put together an unspeakably dopey and incompetent mess called 'Call Me Ben,' combining ultra-generic dance, terrible dialogue and disastrous storytelling, about the founding of Las Vegas by the gangster Bugsy Siegel, who insists, violently, on being addressed as 'Ben.' ~ Robert Gottlieb

Old Year! upon the Stage of Time You stand to bow your last adieu; A moment, and the prompter's chime Will ring the curtain down on you. ~ Robert W. Service

Eddie made a half-turn in his seat to face her. "So, what did you think of our hosts?"
She chuckled. "I think they could be not-too-distant cousins of the Addams Family."
"With Paul as a fuzzy Uncle Fester," Eddie laughed. ~ Hunter Shea

I used to say to myself that happiness and misery depend on ourselves. If you feel unhappy, rise above it and act so that your happiness may be independent of all outside events. ~ Robert K. Massie

First and foremost, I would like to extend my deepest sympathies to the family of Michael Brown. As I have said in the past, I know that, regardless of the circumstances here, they lost a loved one to violence. I know the pain that accompanies such a loss knows no bounds. ~ Robert P. McCulloch

Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie! ~ Robert Burns

Medicine cat' means nothing on its own, without an understanding of what should be done
which isn't always what you first think. ~ Erin Hunter

It's OK to quote from your past. But I'm more interested in quoting from my present and pointing towards the future. ~ Robert Plant

And when his head slumped forward into his book, she giggled, for she knew that he was hers. ~ C. Robert Cargill

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting. ~ Robert Altman

Everybody's got something to tell you. And most people have told me to do the obvious thing as far as my career goes. Which would have sent me tottering into the abyss. ~ Robert Plant

The unknown is so inflammatory to the imagination because it is an imaginatively malleable space: a projection-screen onto which a culture or an individual can throw their fears and their aspirations. Like Echo's cave, the unknown will answer back with whatever you shout at it. ~ Robert Macfarlane

Since ancient times, the philosophers' secret has always been this: we know that God does not exist, or, at least, if he does, he's utterly indifferent to our individual affairs
but we can't let the rabble know that; it's the fear of God, the threat of divine punishment and the promise of divine reward, that keeps in line those too unsophisticated to work out questions of morality on their own. ~ Robert J. Sawyer

Goodness itself, in other words, if it is sufficiently committed to plausible, right-handed, strong-arm methods, will in the very name of goodness do all and more than all that evil ever had in mind. ~ Robert Farrar Capon

Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles. ~ Robert Breault

With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking ~ Robert Hass

Years later, a Japanese visitor tried to apologize to Mao for his country's invasion of China. Mao interrupted, "Should I not thank you instead?" Without a worthy opponent, he explained, a man or group cannot grow stronger. ~ Robert Greene