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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

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
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 MCGUIRE

Afterlife Night Reality
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
You don’t believe in war, but what’s that gun you’re totin’.
BARRY MCGUIRE

Believe Gun War
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
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
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
Marches alone won’t bring integration when human respect is disintegratin
BARRY MCGUIRE

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

Four May Space
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
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 MCGUIRE

Influence Next Roger Steps
Hate your next-door neighbor, but don’t forget to say grace.
BARRY MCGUIRE

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

Green Philosophically Statement Wrote

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.

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