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
stars moon light
Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest corner of a brand-new crescent moon crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune.
jobs light voice
The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master
pride light grace
In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.
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.
changes classic death looking ought
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.