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There’s only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn’t sing his song. Because for me, it wasn’t a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.

Barry McGuire

But times changed, and I changed, and I didn’t feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I think that was probably the main thing. The Beatles just changed the whole world of music.
BARRY MCGUIRE

Thinking Way World
You may leave here for four days in space, but when you return it’s the same old place.
BARRY MCGUIRE

Four May Space
When I wrote ‘Green, Green,’ it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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Green Philosophically Statement Wrote
That’s why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.
BARRY MCGUIRE

Men Night Real
Marches alone won’t bring integration when human respect is disintegratin
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Humans Integration March
There’s only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn’t sing his song. Because for me, it wasn’t a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.
BARRY MCGUIRE

Monsters Song Travel
You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don’t. There’s just no rhyme or reason.
BARRY MCGUIRE

Down Numbers Rhyming
It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn’t play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.
BARRY MCGUIRE

Fun Guitar Song
You tell me over and over and over again, my friend, you don’t believe we’re on the eve of destruction.
BARRY MCGUIRE

Believe Controversy Destruction
I remember we woke up one morning at Denny’s house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what’s wrong, what’s going on? He said, well, everybody’s dead over at Sharon’s house at Terry Melcher’s place.
BARRY MCGUIRE

Guy House Morning
Hate your next-door neighbor, but don’t forget to say grace.
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Doors Hate Religious
You don’t believe in war, but what’s that gun you’re totin’.
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Believe Gun War
Think of all the hate there is in Red China, then take a look around to Selma, Alabama.
BARRY MCGUIRE

Alabama Country Hate People Person Thinking
And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.
BARRY MCGUIRE

Broken Party Real
I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.
BARRY MCGUIRE

Come Mean Up Used
To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true… I’ve never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
BARRY MCGUIRE

Actors Being Real True

There’s only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn’t sing his song. Because for me, it wasn’t a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.

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