Kantner Quotes

#1. What we're saying now is you have a choice: You can stay, or you can go away.

Paul Kantner

#2. We're giving RCA another record, and that should finish them.

Paul Kantner

#3. The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.

Paul Kantner

#4. The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.

Paul Kantner

#5. I was raised by the Christian Brothers, who believe in that, fortunately. They were, to me, the most rebellious arm of the Catholic Church - and one of the most liberal and forward thinking.

Paul Kantner

#6. Religion (ought to be if it isn't) a great deal more than mere gratification of the instinct for worship linked with the straight-teaching of irreproachable credos. Religion must be life made true; and life is action, growth, development
begun now and ending never.

Anna Julia Cooper

#7. I believe the Rolling Stones wanted to play in Golden Gate Park.

Paul Kantner

#8. We have swallowed technology and are struggling to avoid the shackles that make it work: rules and laws.

Seth Kantner

#9. Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.

Paul Kantner

#10. Then you get to be involved with all the people, meet all the beautiful girls, get all the good food, get ready and locked in before all the crowds hit.

Paul Kantner

#11. You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.

Paul Kantner

#12. I don't blame it on the Hell's Angels. I blame it on the people who were there.

Paul Kantner

#13. Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words.

Paul Kantner

#14. We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them.

Paul Kantner

#15. When contemplating General Eisenhower winning the Presidential election, Truman said, Hell sit here, and hell say, Do this! Do that! And nothing will happen. Poor Ikeit wont be a bit like the Army. Hell find it very frustrating.

Harry S. Truman

#16. You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything.

Paul Kantner

#17. Life is change, how it differs from the rocks.

Paul Kantner

#18. Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men; in praise we act like angels.

Thomas Watson

#19. It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.

Paul Kantner

#20. If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.

Paul Kantner

#21. At last my liaison pulled up before a squat structure of poured concrete buttressed with steel, bleak and featureless, like a sepulcher for people who didn't believe in an afterlife.

James K. Morrow

#22. I think most non-Christians who try to be good people are probably better Christians than Christians.

Paul Kantner

#23. I never think of the time I have lost. I just carry out a programme because it's there. It's mapped out for me.

Nelson Mandela

#24. Maintain yourself and everything maintains itself around you.

Paul Kantner

#25. When we toured ... I was hungry to take out people like Jeff Beck in front of us; Fleetwood Mac, just before they hit; Heart, just before they hit.

Paul Kantner

#26. You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.

Paul Kantner

#27. I wouldn't have expected an audience of ours to burn down our equipment.

Paul Kantner

#28. One of the main things we learned as a band in those days was not to be the headliner.

Paul Kantner

#29. The studio scene in California is sort of ridiculous anyway.

Paul Kantner

#30. At first I was iridescent, then I became transparent, finally I was absent

Paul Kantner

#31. There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant.

Paul Kantner