Paul Kantner Quotes

#1. What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

William Law

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

Paul Kantner

#3. 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

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

Paul Kantner

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Paul Kantner

#8. Too hard for MTV, not black enough for BET, just let me be ...

Jadakiss

#9. I'm making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording.

Timbaland

#10. 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

#11. A man might engage in flirtation with distinterest, even disdain. But he never teases without affection.

Tessa Dare

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

Paul Kantner

#13. 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

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

Paul Kantner

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

Paul Kantner

#16. Your mind is your only judge of truth-and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal.

John Galt

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

Paul Kantner

#18. Between 1995 and 2009, Western Europe's entrepreneurs created jobs faster than the U.S. did, and European economies exported more than the BRIC countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China. Eastern Europe's productivity increased more rapidly than East Asia's.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#19. 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

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

Paul Kantner

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

Paul Kantner

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

Paul Kantner

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

Paul Kantner

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

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. Maintain yourself and everything maintains itself around you.

Paul Kantner

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

Paul Kantner

#28. I am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed.

Steve Madden

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

Paul Kantner

#30. North Koreans were indoctrinated from birth to believe that their lives were meaningless, that they existed only to serve the State, the Revolution, and the Great Leader.

Max Brooks

#31. Jesus' call to commitment is clear: He wants all or nothing.

Francis Chan

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

Paul Kantner

#33. 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

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

Paul Kantner