Robert Hunter Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair

  Robert Hunter

  Song, Moving, Inspiration

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.263, Simon and Schuster

• Every song falls short of the glory of what a song could be. That's why the urge is there to start again and yet again. Often it's the fault of rhyme. I've discovered a hundred times that there just aren't enough rhymes to say what I wanted to say, so I said something else instead. Sometimes it was a better thing, but the thing I meant to say went unsaid. So there's an opening for another song.

  Robert Hunter

  Song, Fall, Faults

• 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

  Song, Beach, Morning

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

• River gonna take me, Sing me sweet and sleepy,
  Sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back home,
  It's a far gone lullaby sung many years ago
  Mama, Mama, many worlds I've come since I first left home

  Robert Hunter

  Song, Sweet, Home

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

• What do you want me to do,
  To watch for you,
  To see you through?
  A box of rain will ease the pain,
  and love, will see you through.

  Robert Hunter

  Song, Pain, Rain

• When it seems like the night will last forever,
  And there's nothing left to do but count the years,
  When the strings of my harp to sever,
  And stones fall from my eyes instead of tears...
  I will walk alone by the black muddy river,
  And dream me a dream of my own,
  I will walk alone by the black muddy river,
  And sing me a song of my own.

  Robert Hunter

  Dream, Song, Fall

• Driving that train, high on cocaine
  Casey Jones you'd better watch your speed
  Trouble ahead, trouble behind
  And you know that notion just crossed my mind

  Robert Hunter

  Song, Mind, Watches

  "Casey Jones" (song) (1971)

• Let there be songs to fill the air.

  Robert Hunter

  Song, Air

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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