Barry McGuire

That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was…

— Barry McGuire

I was very laced with drugs myself, but Fred seemed to be even more so than me. That might have had something…

— Barry McGuire

I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would…

— Barry McGuire

When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.

— Barry McGuire

Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin

— Barry McGuire

And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if…

— Barry McGuire

And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into…

— Barry McGuire

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't.…

— Barry McGuire

So he was opening night... I was out of a job, and I'd been to every producer in Hollywood trying to get…

— Barry McGuire

You tell me over and over and over again, my friend, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

— Barry McGuire

My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn't remember…

— Barry McGuire

Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.

— Barry McGuire

You may leave here for four days in space, but when you return it's the same old place.

— Barry McGuire

To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either.…

— Barry McGuire

I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah,…

— Barry McGuire

I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We're cutting back next year to about 40. We…

— Barry McGuire

If you listen to the left track on their album, if you get The Best of the Mamas and Papas, you listen…

— Barry McGuire

Think of all the hate there is in Red China, then take a look around to Selma, Alabama.

— Barry McGuire

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…

— Barry McGuire

There was a report that used to come out back in those days, I don't know if it was the Gavin Report…

— Barry McGuire

It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all…

— Barry McGuire

You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'.

— Barry McGuire

But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I think that was probably…

— Barry McGuire

So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was…

— Barry McGuire

The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step,…

— Barry McGuire