Barry McGuire
Barry McGuire
Barry McGuireis an American singer-songwriter best known for the hit song "Eve of Destruction", and later as a pioneering singer and songwriter of contemporary Christian music...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth15 October 1937
CityOklahoma City, OK
CountryUnited States of America
night reality afterlife
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 happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.
march integration humans
Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin
green statements
When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
thinking way world
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 Beatles just changed the whole world of music.
mean come-up used
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. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.
italian should-have years
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 maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.
real night men
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 real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.
real actors being-true
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 I can do it.
war believe gun
You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'.
numbers down-and rhyming
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 reason.
hate thinking looks
Think of all the hate there is in Red China, then take a look around to Selma, Alabama.
space may return
You may leave here for four days in space, but when you return it's the same old place.
believe destruction controversy
You tell me over and over and over again, my friend, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.
hate doors grace
Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.