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
dream song fall
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.
fall all-alone ifs
You who choose to lead must follow. But if you fall, you fall alone.
morning fall blood
Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the sea of morning creep-very-softly mist...and then sort of cascade tinkley-bell like (must I take you by the hand, every so slowly type) and then conglomerate suddenly into a peal of silver vibrant uncomprehendingly, blood singingly, joyously resoundingbells....By my faith if this be insanity, then for the love of God permit me to remain insane.
song fall faults
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.
double
Even if it didn't get reported, why in the world would you want double insurance?
change industry pressured
The suddenness of the change made us think they were pressured by the industry to make this change.
again feeling joyce less puts start
Sometimes, when I start feeling less than humble, I look at Joyce again and he puts me right in my place.
mine share shared
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.
affected found interest lovely thumb
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.
looks peak tour
I wanted to peak in the Tour de Suisse, ... It looks like it's happened.
anyone consider create gonna good hear nice pleasure record song though walk
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.
good
I'm not good at being lionized, and when I'm in 'Grateful Dead'-type situations, that happens.
next signings tend
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.