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“See here how everything leads up to this day. And it's just like any other day that's ever been. Sun going up and then, the sun, it going down. Shine through my window, and my friends they come around.”

Robert Hunter

"Black Peter"
Workingman's Dead (1970)

“Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through… the transitive nightfall of diamonds”

Robert Hunter

"Dark Star"
Song lyrics, (1969)

“The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master”

Robert Hunter

"Lady With a Fan"
Song lyrics, (1977)

“But never give your love, my friend, Unto a foolish heart”

Robert Hunter

"Foolish Heart"
Song lyrics, (1989)

“There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night. And if you go, no one may follow. That path is for your steps alone.”

Robert Hunter

"Ripple"
American Beauty (1970)

“Sometimes we live no particular way but our own”

Robert Hunter

"Eyes of the World"
Song lyrics, (1973)

Robert Hunter Quotes about time

“Crippled but free, I was blind all the time I was learning to see.”

Robert Hunter

"Help on the Way"
Song lyrics, (1975)

“Such a long, long time to be gone, and a short time to be here.”

Robert Hunter

"Box of Rain"
Song lyrics, American Beauty (1970)

“There are times when you get hit upon, Try hard but you cannot give. Other times you'd gladly part, With what you need to live”

Robert Hunter

"Built to Last"
Built to Last (1989)

“There are things you can replace, and others you cannot. The time has come to weigh those things, this space is getting hot.”

Robert Hunter

"Althea"
Go to Heaven (1980)

“In another time's forgotten space, your eyes looked through your mother's face, Wildflower seed on the sand and stone, may the four winds blow you safely home. Roll away … the dew”

Robert Hunter

"Franklin's Tower"
Song lyrics, Blues for Allah (1975)

“Ain't no time to hate, barely time to wait”

Robert Hunter

"Uncle John's Band"
Song lyrics, (1970)

Robert Hunter Quotes about light

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

Robert Hunter

"Terrapin Station"
Song lyrics, (1977)

“Once in a while, you get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if you look at it right.”

Robert Hunter

"Scarlet Begonias"
Song lyrics, (1974)

“Sometimes the light's all shining on me, Other times I can barely see, Lately it occurs to me, What a long strange trip it's been…”

Robert Hunter

"Truckin'"
Song lyrics, American Beauty (1970)

Robert Hunter Quotes

“Don't waste the breath to save your face, When you have done your best, And even more is asked of you, Let fate decide the rest.”

Robert Hunter

"Built to Last"
Built to Last (1989)

“I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools.”

Robert Hunter

"Ship of Fools"
Song lyrics, (1974)

“In the secret space of dreams, Where I dreaming lay amazed, When the secrets all are told, And the petals all unfold. When there was no dream of mine, You dreamed of me”

Robert Hunter

"Attics of My Life"
American Beauty (1970)

“I like your smile but I ain't your type, Don't shake the tree when the fruit ain't ripe”

Robert Hunter

"Loose Lucy"
Song lyrics, (1974)

“Trouble ahead, Trouble behind, and you know that notion just crossed my mind”

Robert Hunter

"Casey Jones"
Song lyrics, (1970)

“Well, the first days are the hardest days, don't you worry anymore. When life looks like Easy Street there is danger at your door.”

Robert Hunter

"Uncle John's Band"
Workingman's Dead (1970)

“When I was just a little young boy, Papa said "Son, you'll never get far, I'll tell you the reason if you want to know, 'cause child of mine, there isn't really very far to go."”

Robert Hunter

"Dupree's Diamond Blues"
Song lyrics, (1969)

“Let my inspiration flow, in token lines suggesting rhythm, that will not forsake me, till my tale is told and done”

Robert Hunter

"Lady With a Fan"
Song lyrics, (1977)

“You who choose to lead must follow, But if you fall, you fall alone, If you should stand then who's to guide you? If I knew the way I would take you home”

Robert Hunter

"Ripple"
Song lyrics, American Beauty (1970)

“Ain't nobody messin' with you but you”

Robert Hunter

"Althea"
Song lyrics, (1980)

“Lovers come and go, the river roll, roll, roll.”

Robert Hunter

"Brokedown Palace"
Song lyrics, American Beauty (1970)

“Oh no well I / been there before / and I ain't a comin back around / there no more / no I'm not”

Robert Hunter

"Alligator" (with Ron "Pigpen" McKernan)
Song lyrics, (1968)

“While you were gone, these spaces filled with darkness. The obvious was hidden. With nothing to believe in. The compass always points to Terrapin.”

Robert Hunter

"At A Siding"
Terrapin Station (1977)

“Nothing's for certain, It could always go wrong, Come in when it's raining, Go on out when it's gone, We could have us a high time, Living the good life, Well I know”

Robert Hunter

"High Time"
Song lyrics, (1970)

“It seems like all this life was just a dream”

Robert Hunter

"Stella Blue"
Song lyrics, (1973)

“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

"Eyes of the World"
Song lyrics, (1973)

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