Top 49 Robert Hunter Quotes
#1. Destroy yourself physically and morally and insist that all true brothers do likewise as an expression of unity.
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#4. But never give your love, my friend, Unto a foolish heart
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#5. What do you want me to do,
To watch for you,
To see you through?
A box of rain will ease the pain,
and love, will see you through.
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#6. The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master
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#7. 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.
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#8. 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.
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#9. 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.
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#11. I tend to write things and don't go the next step and try to get it published. I don't want to do book signings and stuff.
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#12. When life looks like easy street there is danger at your door
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#13. 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.
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#14. Everything you cherish
Throws you over in the end
Thorns will grab your ankles
From the gardens that you tend.
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#15. Everything you gather is just one that you can lose.
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#16. 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.
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#17. You who choose to lead must follow. But if you fall, you fall alone.
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#18. Sometimes we live no particular way but our own
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#19. It's better to wear seaweed socks than stick a melon in your brother's ear.
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#20. Such a long, long time to be gone and a short time to be there
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#21. Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair
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#22. There are things you can replace, and others you cannot. The time has come to weigh those things, this space is getting hot.
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#23. 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
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#24. 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
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#25. Comes a Time when the blind man takes your hand says DON'T YOU SEE?
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#26. Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world.
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#27. Poised for flight, Wings spread bright, Spring from night into the Sun.
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#28. If you get confused, just listen to the music play.
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#30. But I would rather be with you, somewhere in San Francisco on a back porch in July, just looking up to Heaven, at this crescent in the sky
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#31. When I got out of the hospital, it was one of those classic things - you're looking death in the eye, and it changes you. I thought, I ought to go back on the road.
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#32. Driving that train, high on cocaine
Casey Jones you'd better watch your speed
Trouble ahead, trouble behind
And you know that notion just crossed my mind
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#33. In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.
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#34. Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest corner of a brand-new crescent moon crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune.
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#36. Keep an eye to the future, and ear to the past, and after thinking it over notice nothing much lasts.
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#37. Outside major darkness where the circle is complete there's no fear that lovers born will ever fail to meet
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#38. Crippled but free, I was blind all the time I was learning to see.
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#39. Without love in a dream it will never come true
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#40. 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.
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#41. Let my inspiration flow, in token lines suggesting rhythm, that will not forsake me, till my tale is told and done
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#42. 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.
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#43. 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.
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#44. 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.
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#45. Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.
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#46. When you get ready to vote, make sure you know what you are doing.
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#47. I'm not good at being lionized, and when I'm in 'Grateful Dead'-type situations, that happens.
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#48. 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.
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#49. 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.
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