93 Quotes by Robert Hunter

One man gathers what another man spills

The truth of love an unsung song must tell. The course of love must follow blind, without a look behind.

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.

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.

You who choose to lead must follow. But if you fall, you fall alone.

In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.

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.

When I got out of the hospital, it was one of those classic things - you're looking death in the eye, and it changes you. I thought, I ought to go back on the road.

When you get ready to vote, make sure you know what you are doing.