Robert Hunter quotes

You who choose to lead must follow. But if you fall, you fall alone. (Robert Hunter)
In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.
Robert Hunter
Ain't nobody messin' with you but you.
Robert Hunter
Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world, but the heart has its beaches, its homeland, and thoughts of its own. Wake now, discover that you are the song that the morning brings, but the heart has its seasons its evenings, and songs of its own.
Robert Hunter
But never give your love, my friend, Unto a foolish heart.
Robert Hunter
The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master.
Robert Hunter
There are times when you get hit upon, Try hard but you cannot give. Other times you'd gladly part, With what you need to live.
Robert Hunter
Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair.
Robert Hunter
Sometimes we live no particular way but our own.
Robert Hunter
Crippled but free, I was blind all the time I was learning to see.
Robert Hunter
I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools. (Robert Hunter)
There are things you can replace, and others you cannot. The time has come to weigh those things, this space is getting hot.
Robert Hunter
There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone.
Robert Hunter
Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right.
Robert Hunter
Let my inspiration flow, in token lines suggesting rhythm, that will not forsake me, till my tale is told and done.
Robert Hunter
Don't waste the breath to save your face, When you have done your best, And even more is asked of you, Let fate decide the rest.
Robert Hunter
When I was just a little young boy, Papa said Son, you'll never get far, I'll tell you the reason if you want to know, 'cause child of mine, there isn't really very far to go.
Robert Hunter
Well, the first days are the hardest days, don't you worry anymore. When life looks like Easy Street there is danger at your door.
Robert Hunter
I got really, really sick with a spinal infection that put me in a hospital for a couple of months, and it was touch and go. I had my guitar with me, and as soon as I got well enough to play, there was nothing else to do in that hospital. The nurses would come in and request songs.
Robert Hunter
A song doesn't happen as a whole verse; it happens linearly, line by line, almost word by word, phrase by phrase. And if each phrase, each line, has a proper emotional feel and connects to the line before it and the line after it, the song will be doing what it should be doing.
Robert Hunter
If you can even manage to tell exactly what a song is about, all you do is put that song in a box forever, and it loses its evocative power. (Robert Hunter)
Lovers come and go, the river roll, roll, roll.
Robert Hunter
Oh no well I / been there before / and I ain't a comin back around / there no more / no I'm not.
Robert Hunter
While you were gone, these spaces filled with darkness. The obvious was hidden. With nothing to believe in. The compass always points to Terrapin.
Robert Hunter
Ain't no time to hate, barely time to wait.
Robert Hunter