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Barry Mcguire Quotes
Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space, but when you return, its the same old place. - Barry Mcguire Quotes
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 wasnt reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that. - Barry Mcguire Quotes
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 Quotes
But times changed, and I changed, and I didnt 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 Mcguire Quotes
For me, it was a whole search. There was an undercurrent. And this is only my personal perspective. I cant say everybody would answer the same way. - Barry Mcguire Quotes
Gene Clark was in the Christy Minstrels. He left. And so when Gene and David and Roger got together with Chris, and then off they went. - Barry Mcguire Quotes
Hate your next-door neighbor, but dont forget to say grace. - Barry Mcguire Quotes
He was an entrepreneur. He was the one who hired the musicians and booked the sessions and he had the ear. He heard the Mamas and Papas and said yes, immediately, yes! And so he did have, I guess, that producers gift. - Barry Mcguire Quotes
I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. Were cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps. - Barry Mcguire Quotes
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 Quotes
I never gave it a second thought. In fact, you saying it right now is the first time Ive ever considered it. No, not at all. Not for me. - Barry Mcguire Quotes
I remember we woke up one morning at Dennys house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, whats wrong, whats going on? He said, well, everybodys dead over at Sharons house at Terry Melchers place. - Barry Mcguire Quotes
I was very laced with drugs myself, but Fred seemed to be even more so than me. That might have had something to do with it. That might have had something to do with nobody wanting to play my records, too, I dont know. - Barry Mcguire Quotes
Ive never been much of a musician. Im kind of like, youve got a bunch of guys out on surfboards. Well, some guys really calculate the waves. - Barry Mcguire Quotes
If you listen to the left track on their album, if you get The Best of the Mamas and Papas, you listen to the left track, you can still hear a little bit of my voice. My son discovered that once. - Barry Mcguire Quotes
It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didnt play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs. - Barry Mcguire Quotes
Marches alone wont bring integration when human respect is disintegratin - Barry Mcguire Quotes
My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldnt remember the words. I can remember songs. If you put it to a melody, I would have sung it to em in a minute. - Barry Mcguire Quotes
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 shouldnt steal from each other. - Barry Mcguire Quotes
So he was opening night... I was out of a job, and Id been to every producer in Hollywood trying to get a job singing. But nobody wanted to know me. - Barry Mcguire Quotes
Thats 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 Quotes
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 Quotes
There was a report that used to come out back in those days, I dont know if it was the Gavin Report or something like that. And they said, no matter what McGuire comes out with next, were not gonna play it. - Barry Mcguire Quotes
Theres only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldnt sing his song. Because for me, it wasnt a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her. - Barry Mcguire Quotes
To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... Ive never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it. - Barry Mcguire Quotes
Were all sitting at the same table. Sloan is, and Adler, and Dylan. I spent most of the time dancing. I kind of forgot about it. - Barry Mcguire Quotes
When I wrote "Green, Green," it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life. - Barry Mcguire Quotes
You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they dont. Theres just no rhyme or reason. - Barry Mcguire Quotes
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