You may leave here for four days in space, but when you return it’s the same old place.
BARRY MCGUIRE
BARRY MCGUIRE
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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.
Barry McGuireBarry McGuire 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.
Barry McGuireBarry McGuire You tell me over and over and over again, my friend, you don’t believe we’re on the eve of destruction.
Barry McGuireBarry McGuire Marches alone won’t bring integration when human respect is disintegratin
Barry McGuireBarry McGuire 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 McGuireBarry McGuire 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 McGuireBarry McGuire Think of all the hate there is in Red China, then take a look around to Selma, Alabama.
Barry McGuireBarry McGuire 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 McGuireBarry McGuire 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.
Barry McGuireBarry 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 McGuireBarry McGuire 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 McGuireBarry McGuire 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 McGuireBarry McGuire 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.
Barry McGuireBarry McGuire 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 McGuireBarry McGuire When I wrote ‘Green, Green,’ it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
Barry McGuireBarry McGuire You don’t believe in war, but what’s that gun you’re totin’.
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