Quotes from Robert Hunter

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.

Everything you gather is just one that you can lose.

If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung Would you hear my voice come through the music Would you hold it near as it were your own?

...if you get confused, just listen to the music play.

Ain't no time to hate, barely time to wait

Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right

Crippled but free, I was blind all the time I was learning to see.

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.

What a long, strange trip it's been.

One man gathers what another man spills

Once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

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.

When life looks like easy street there is danger at your door

The sky was yellow and the sun was blue...

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 Terrapin Station...

It's better to wear seaweed socks than stick a melon in your brother's ear.

Outside major darkness where the circle is complete there's no fear that lovers born will ever fail to meet

Keep an eye to the future, and ear to the past, and after thinking it over notice nothing much lasts.

The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean.

Such a long long time to be gone and a short time to be there

Got to get down to the Cumberland mine That's where I mainly spend my time

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.

In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.

Well, the first days are the hardest days, don't you worry anymore. When life looks like Easy Street there is danger at your door.