“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.”

So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn’t steal from each other.

The big turning point, really, was the Beatles’ influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin’ Spoonful and everybody else.

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

Marches alone won’t bring integration when human respect is disintegratin

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.

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.

Think of all the hate there is in Red China, then take a look around to Selma, Alabama.

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.

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

So he was opening night… I was out of a job, and I’d been to every producer in Hollywood trying to get a job singing. But nobody wanted to know me.

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.

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.

And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn’t reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.

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.

When I wrote ‘Green, Green,’ it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.

You don’t believe in war, but what’s that gun you’re totin’.

For an apple you can’t reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won’t bend down for you!

The good will is all – and all the talents are ways to fulfill it.

Allah makes the way to Jannah easy for him who treads the path in search of knowledge.

The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.

All the creatures living on Earth behave more or less the same way!

You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.

In other words, leaders are visionaries and managers operate within those established visions.

The direction an organization takes. The net result of this influence is to change the way people think about what is desirable, possible, and necessary.