Paul Kantner Quotes

• San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality.

  Paul Kantner

  Reality, Squares, San Francisco

  "Paul Kantner Tribute and Interview". Interview with Harvey Kubernik, cavehollywood.com. February 8, 2016.

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• At first I was iridescent, then I became transparent, finally I was absent

  Paul Kantner

  Honesty, Firsts, Iridescent

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• If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.

  Paul Kantner

  Remember, Sixty, Ifs

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• I think most non-Christians who try to be good people are probably better Christians than Christians.

  Paul Kantner

  Christian, Thinking, People

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• Maintain yourself and everything maintains itself around you.

  Paul Kantner

  Interview by Patricia Kennealy, www.jeffersonstarshipsf.com. February, 1971.

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• You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.

  Paul Kantner

  Computer, Feds

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• You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything.

  Paul Kantner

  Land, Guy, Over You

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• The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.

  Paul Kantner

  Volunteer, Political, Action

  Interview by Patricia Kennealy, www.jeffersonstarshipsf.com. February, 1971.

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• Life is change, how it differs from the rocks.

  Paul Kantner

  Rocks, Life Is

  "Crown of Creation". Song by Paul Kantner, September 1968.

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• You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.

  Paul Kantner

  Life, Inspire, Albums

  Interview by Patricia Kennealy, www.jeffersonstarshipsf.com. February, 1971.

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• I was raised by the Christian Brothers, who believe in that, fortunately. They were, to me, the most rebellious arm of the Catholic Church - and one of the most liberal and forward thinking.

  Paul Kantner

  Christian, Brother, Believe

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• I believe the Rolling Stones wanted to play in Golden Gate Park.

  Paul Kantner

  Believe, Play, Rolling

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• Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words.

  Paul Kantner

  Light, Firsts, Steps

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• It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.

  Paul Kantner

  Form, Bigger, Certain

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• There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant.

  Paul Kantner

  Odd, Century, Pleasant

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• Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.

  Paul Kantner

  Rocks, Concerts, Business Meeting

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• The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.

  Paul Kantner

  Real, Way, Force

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• The studio scene in California is sort of ridiculous anyway.

  Paul Kantner

  California, Ridiculous, Scene

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