Robert Hunter > Quotes

“Once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.”
― Robert Hunter

“One man gathers what another man spills”
― Robert Hunter, A Box of Rain: Lyrics, 1965-1993

“There's a better way. There has to be education, and the education has to come from the poets and musicians, because it has to touch the heart rather than the intellect, it has to get in there deeply.”
― Robert Hunter

“When life looks like easy street there is danger at your door”
― Robert Hunter

“The sky was yellow and the sun was blue...”
― Robert Hunter

“Such a long, long time to be gone and a short time to be there”
― Robert Hunter, A Box of Rain: Lyrics, 1965-1993

“...Counting stars by candlelight
all are dim but one is bright
the spiral light of Venus
rising first and shining best
from the northwest corner
of a brand-new crescent moon
crickets and cicadas sing
a rare and different tune
Terrapin Station...”
― Robert Hunter, A Box of Rain: Lyrics, 1965-1993

“It's better to wear seaweed socks than stick a melon in your brother's ear.”
― Robert Hunter

“Keep an eye to the future, and ear to the past, and after thinking it over notice nothing much lasts.”
― Robert Hunter, A Box of Rain: Lyrics, 1965-1993

“Such a long long time to be gone
and a short time to be there”
― Robert Hunter

“Outside major darkness where the circle is complete there's no fear that lovers born will ever fail to meet”
― Robert Hunter

“Got to get down to the Cumberland mine. That's where I mainly spend my time.”
― Robert Hunter

“Got to get down to the Cumberland mine
That's where I mainly spend my time”
― Robert Hunter

“The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean.”
― Robert Hunter