Robert Hunter Quotes
- While you were gone, these spaces filled with darkness. The obvious was hidden. With nothing to believe in. The compass always points to Terrapin. - View Quote Details on While you were gone, these spaces filled with darkness. The…
- I like your smile but I ain’t your type, Don’t shake the tree when the fruit ain’t ripe - View Quote Details on I like your smile but I ain’t your type, Don’t…
- 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. - View Quote Details on Well, the first days are the hardest days, don’t you…
- 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. - View Quote Details on There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn…
- In another time’s forgotten space, your eyes looked through your mother’s face, Wildflower seed on the sand and stone, may the four winds blow you safely home. Roll away… the dew - View Quote Details on In another time’s forgotten space, your eyes looked through your…
- Let my inspiration flow, in token lines suggesting rhythm, that will not forsake me, till my tale is told and done - View Quote Details on Let my inspiration flow, in token lines suggesting rhythm, that…
- It seems like all this life was just a dream - View Quote Details on It seems like all this life was just a dream
- 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 - View Quote Details on There are times when you get hit upon, Try hard…
- Ain’t nobody messin’ with you but you - View Quote Details on Ain’t nobody messin’ with you but you
- Trouble ahead, Trouble behind, and you know that notion just crossed my mind - View Quote Details on Trouble ahead, Trouble behind, and you know that notion just…
- Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair - View Quote Details on Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and…
- See here how everything leads up to this day. And it’s just like any other day that’s ever been. Sun going up and then, the sun, it going down. Shine through my window, and my friends they come around. - View Quote Details on See here how everything leads up to this day. And…
- Such a long, long time to be gone, and a short time to be here. - View Quote Details on Such a long, long time to be gone, and a…
- Nothing’s for certain, It could always go wrong, Come in when it’s raining, Go on out when it’s gone, We could have us a high time, Living the good life, Well I know - View Quote Details on Nothing’s for certain, It could always go wrong, Come in…
- 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.” - View Quote Details on When I was just a little young boy, Papa said…
- 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 - View Quote Details on Wake up to find out that you are the eyes…
- 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. - View Quote Details on I won’t slave for beggar’s pay, likewise gold and jewels,…
- You who choose to lead must follow, But if you fall, you fall alone, If you should stand then who’s to guide you? If I knew the way I would take you home - View Quote Details on You who choose to lead must follow, But if you…
- Ain’t no time to hate, barely time to wait - View Quote Details on Ain’t no time to hate, barely time to wait
- Lovers come and go, the river roll, roll, roll. - View Quote Details on Lovers come and go, the river roll, roll, roll.
- In the secret space of dreams, Where I dreaming lay amazed, When the secrets all are told, And the petals all unfold. When there was no dream of mine, You dreamed of me - View Quote Details on In the secret space of dreams, Where I dreaming lay…
- Once in a while, you get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if you look at it right. - View Quote Details on Once in a while, you get shown the light, in…
- Crippled but free, I was blind all the time I was learning to see. - View Quote Details on Crippled but free, I was blind all the time I…
- There are things you can replace, and others you cannot. The time has come to weigh those things, this space is getting hot. - View Quote Details on There are things you can replace, and others you cannot…
- But never give your love, my friend, Unto a foolish heart - View Quote Details on But never give your love, my friend, Unto a foolish…
- The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master - View Quote Details on The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear…
About Robert Hunter
Robert C. Hunter (b. 23 June 1941 ) was the primary lyricist on Grateful Dead albums from Aoxomoxoa until the band formally retired the name with the death of Jerry Garcia.
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