Robert Hunter
Robert Hunter
Guitarist and lyricist best known for his longtime collaboration with jam band The Grateful Dead. Though he does not normally perform live with the band, he has co-written many of their most famous songs, including "Dark Star".
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSongwriter
Date of Birth23 June 1941
CountryUnited States of America
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Even if it didn't get reported, why in the world would you want double insurance?
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The suddenness of the change made us think they were pressured by the industry to make this change.
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Sometimes, when I start feeling less than humble, I look at Joyce again and he puts me right in my place.
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We can share what we got of yours'Cause we done shared all of mine
Frail! I like that word. Yes, that describes it well.
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It's a lovely book. I thumb through it and find it actually of interest. . . . I had no idea that all of these things he found had affected my songs.
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I wanted to peak in the Tour de Suisse, ... It looks like it's happened.
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I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in it - with all I'm gonna really get out of that song. My greatest pleasure is to create it, not to record it, not to hear anyone else play it, though that can be nice too.
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I'm not good at being lionized, and when I'm in 'Grateful Dead'-type situations, that happens.
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I tend to write things and don't go the next step and try to get it published. I don't want to do book signings and stuff.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.