Barry McGuire Quotes

• Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.

  Barry McGuire

  Religious, Hate, Doors

  Song: Eve Of Destruction

  45 Copy quote

• Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin

  Barry McGuire

  March, Integration, Humans

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• 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, Destruction, Controversy

  Song: Eve Of Destruction

  7 Copy quote

• Think of all the hate there is in Red China, then take a look around to Selma, Alabama.

  Barry McGuire

  Hate, Thinking, Alabama

  Song: Eve Of Destruction, Album: Eve of Destruction

  4 Copy quote

• You may leave here for four days in space, but when you return it's the same old place.

  Barry McGuire

  Space, Four, May

  Song: Eve Of Destruction

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  Real, Actors, Being True

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Night, Reality, Afterlife

  8 Copy quote

• When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.

  Barry McGuire

  Green, Statements

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Next Steps, Roger, Influence

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  Real, Night, Men

  8 Copy quote

• You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'.

  Barry McGuire

  War, Believe, Gun

  Song: Eve Of Destruction

  5 Copy quote

• But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't 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

  Thinking, World, Way

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Italian, Should Have, Years

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Mean, Used, Come Up

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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

  Numbers, Down And, Rhyming

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• I 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 McGuire

  Morning, House, Guy

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Song, Fun, Guitar

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• 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

  Real, Party, Broken

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  Song, Travel, Monsters

  8 Copy quote

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