Occupation: Singer-Songwriter Birth: October 15, 1935
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….
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….
When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life..
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 ….
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..
Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin.
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….
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 ….
You tell me over and over and over again, my friend, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction..
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 ….
Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace..
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 Lo….
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 Beatl….
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 ….
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 ….
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. ….
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 ma….
You may leave here for four days in space, but when you return it's the same old place..
You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'..
Think of all the hate there is in Red China, then take a look around to Selma, Alabama..