Barry McGuire Quotes

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• There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well,…
• And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if…
• So he was opening night... I was out of a job, and I'd been to every producer in Hollywood trying to get a job singing.…
• And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party…
• You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no…
• Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.
• It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of…
• I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's…
• The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along…
• Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin
• When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
• But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I think that was probably the main thing.…
• I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and…
• So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me…
• That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show,…
• To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is…
• You may leave here for four days in space, but when you return it's the same old place.
• You tell me over and over and over again, my friend, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.
• You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'.
• If you listen to the left track on their album, if you get The Best of the Mamas and Papas, you listen to the left…

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