The Byrds Quotes

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

Chris Hillman

#2. The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point.

P. J. O'Rourke

#3. I'm happy with the Byrds as a good memory.

Roger McGuinn

#4. To err is human - but it feels divine.

Mae West

#5. Avengers was cool. I liked it. But I feel like we haven't seen this side of the superhero universe. So I think fans want to see it, too. If everything is perfect and shiny and everybody has Quinjets and mansions, it just gets a little ... I don't know. I'm ready for something different.

Timothy Miller

#6. I remember that first week at the Whisky and the gigs we (The Buffalo Springfield) did with the Byrds, We could really smoke ! That band never got on record as bad, and as hard as we were. Live we sounded like the Rolling Stones ...

Stephen Stills

#7. The Byrds flew off the fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling fast.

Don McLean

#8. When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer indifferent housekeeping, sleeping cats, and sufficient organizational chaos ...

Anne Fadiman

#9. Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.

Steve Forbert

#10. I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.

Patti Smith

#11. 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

#12. When The Byrds started country-rock, we had no idea there would be such a thing. We were just trying to honor the music. We started listening to country radio. We went to Nudie's and got cowboy clothes.

Roger McGuinn

#13. Before I joined The Beach Boys, I was working at Columbia Records as a producer, and saw The Byrds come in and do their first overdub before Terry even met them.

Bruce Johnston

#14. I really dig The Byrds. I think they are the most underrated - in their original form - pop group.

Bruce Johnston

#15. Keep saying no to her,
Since she was a baby.
Keep saying no to her,
Not even maybe.

from "Why?" by the Byrds

David Crosby

#16. There's another problem," Percy said. "I'm not good with air travel. It's dangerous for a son of Neptune."
"You'll have to risk it ... and so will I," Frank said. "By the way, we're related."
Percy almost stumbled off the roof. "What?

Rick Riordan

#17. If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

Stephen King

#18. And then she'll know the things I learned
That really have no value in the end she will surely know
I wasn't born to follow

The Byrds

#19. Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

Victor Hugo

#20. It's so funny because all those years I was working, I basically always felt that whatever job I was doing would probably be the last one I would get. I really never thought that I stacked up with the other girls.

Christie Brinkley

#21. The original Byrds were very much Beatles-influenced, and then we gradually got our own sound. We started mixing things together more.

Roger McGuinn

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

Chris Hillman

#23. Let go of all your worries, embrace hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. The Rascals are something else. They're up there with the Beatles, and Stones and Byrds. That level of musicality. They have a real chemistry. It is like magic.

Steven Van Zandt

#25. I would do a Byrds tour or a Byrds record in a minute. I miss that band now. I've tried to convince Roger over and over to do it, but he's not interested. Music isn't something you can legislate into being.

David Crosby

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

Chris Hillman

#27. I rode the buses in L.A. until I was in my early 30s, and there's something about driving or riding through L.A. after sundown, when the Utopian city goes into hiding and another city comes out, more Doors and less Byrds.

Steve Erickson

#28. I'd like to be remembered as a keeper of the flame who kept traditional music alive, because I've been doing that twice as long as I was in the Byrds.

Roger McGuinn

#29. You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds.

Steve Forbert

#30. Maxwell's theory is Maxwell's system of equations.

Heinrich Hertz