Quotes from Robert Hunter

I tend to write things and don't go the next step and try to get it published. I don't want to do book signings and stuff.

I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in it - with all I'm gonna really get out of that song. My greatest pleasure is to create it, not to record it, not to hear anyone else play it, though that can be nice too.

But never give your love, my friend, Unto a foolish heart

At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle.

What do you want me to do, To watch for you, To see you through? A box of rain will ease the pain, and love, will see you through.

Without love in a dream it will never come true

Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.

I'm not good at being lionized, and when I'm in 'Grateful Dead'-type situations, that happens.

When I was just a little young boy, Papa said Son, you'll never get far, I'll tell you the reason if you want to know, 'cause child of mine, there isn't really very far to go.

You who choose to lead must follow. But if you fall, you fall alone.

When I got out of the hospital, it was one of those classic things - you're looking death in the eye, and it changes you. I thought, I ought to go back on the road.

A song doesn't happen as a whole verse; it happens linearly, line by line, almost word by word, phrase by phrase. And if each phrase, each line, has a proper emotional feel and connects to the line before it and the line after it, the song will be doing what it should be doing.

Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend.

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