Chris Hillman Quotes

#1. I was a lucky kid. You could have got 10 kids to be in The Byrds who were better than I was.

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#2. "Go and Say Goodbye" by the Buffalo Springfield stands as one of the first examples of what would later be branded country rock

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#3. I think Gram did his best work in co-writes. Sometimes when you're working with one other person, it's such a magical thing. You're editing each other and you're trying to create that one spark.

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#4. My dad founded the 'Rancho Santa Fe Times' and won a lot of journalism awards.

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#5. When I was playing bluegrass, I was living down in West Hollywood - starving.

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#6. If you could ask that question more precisely, you probably wouldn't be interested in the answer anymore

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#7. All along, I did what I was comfortable doing, which was to play the music I enjoyed and try to stretch the parameters a bit. Country and bluegrass and folk were my foundation.

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#8. Nathan McEuen's light is shining bright. A fine singer, guitarist and an excellent songwriter. There is hope on the horizon.

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#9. The Byrds weren't rock n' roll guys. We were kinda like your Seekers ... folkies who took it a step further.

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#10. I loved playing the stuff we did in the Byrds. It was a good band. I was lucky to be in it.

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#11. You know what I do on Sundays? I sing in a choir. I sing in a Greek Orthodox choir, and I'm the only hillbilly tenor in the Orthodox Church.

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#12. Those Laurel Canyon days were great. I have a real fondness for that era, 'til about '68. Musically, it was wonderful, and there was this great innocence, an idyllic view of the world. After that, everything got a little ... edgy.

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