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

Doors Hate Religious
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
You don’t believe in war, but what’s that gun you’re totin’.
BARRY MCGUIRE

Believe Gun War
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 MCGUIRE

Jobs Night Singing
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 MCGUIRE

Five Gradually Roadster Stolen Strip Year
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
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.
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Fun Guitar Song
Marches alone won’t bring integration when human respect is disintegratin
BARRY MCGUIRE

Humans Integration March
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.
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Come Mean Up Used

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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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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