Hate your next-door neighbor, but don’t forget to say grace.
BARRY MCGUIREHate your next-door neighbor, but don’t forget to say grace.
BARRY MCGUIREWhen I wrote ‘Green, Green,’ it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
BARRY MCGUIREMarches alone won’t bring integration when human respect is disintegratin
BARRY MCGUIREThat’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 MCGUIREThere’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 MCGUIREThink of all the hate there is in Red China, then take a look around to Selma, Alabama.
BARRY MCGUIREYou tell me over and over and over again, my friend, you don’t believe we’re on the eve of destruction.
BARRY MCGUIREYou may leave here for four days in space, but when you return it’s the same old place.
BARRY MCGUIRETo 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 MCGUIRESo 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 MCGUIREI 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 MCGUIREAnd 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 MCGUIREIt 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 MCGUIREYou don’t believe in war, but what’s that gun you’re totin’.
BARRY MCGUIREAnd 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 MCGUIREYou 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.
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