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've done drives through Budapest and Oslo and used to drive to Sardinia, too, which is quite a journey. Drives are an adventure because I don't plan them too carefully. I take detours depending on how I feel and usually stop and stay at places I like the look of.

Rick Astley

#4. Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.

Hortense Calisher

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

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#7. But what else can I do, other than to plead with you like this? Other than to write down my story, our story, to show you that what you've done ... to make you realize that what you did wasn't fair, wasn't right.

Lucy Christopher

#8. Chris Hillman (of the Byrds) recounts ... 'What happened to the Buffulo Springfield at the Whisky was similar to what happened to us at Ciro's ... everybody wanted to be there. It became the place to be ... a great gig.'

Johnny Rogan

#9. George Bush's vision does not live up to the America I enlisted in the Navy to defend, the America I have fought for in the Senate, and the America that I hope to lead as president.

John F. Kerry

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

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

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#12. We do not belong to ourselves alone, she wanted to say, but there was no one to speak to.

Amanda Coplin

#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

George Herbert

#16. With the suggestion of a compromise Gawaine mustered up enough courage to speak.
"What will you do if I surrender?" he asked.
"Why, I'll eat you," said the dragon.
"And if I don't surrender?"
"I'll eat you just the same.

Heywood Broun

#17. Is your inner vampire different from your ... outer vampire?'
'Definitely. He wants me to wear midriff-baring shirts and a fedora.'
'So your inner vampire is Magnus?

Cassandra Clare

#18. 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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#19. Oh Mr. Webster could never define what's being said between your heart and mine.

Alison Krauss

#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. 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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