Chris Hillman Quotations

The Squirrel Barkers always have a special place in my heart.

I loved playing the stuff we did in the Byrds. It was a good band. I was lucky to be in it.

I was a lucky kid. You could have got 10 kids to be in The Byrds who were better than I was.

My dad founded the 'Rancho Santa Fe Times' and won a lot of journalism awards.

The Byrds weren't rock n' roll guys. We were kinda like your Seekers... folkies who took it a step further.

When I was playing bluegrass, I was living down in West Hollywood - starving.

You know what I do on Sundays? I sing in a choir. I sing in a Greek Orthodox choir, and I'm the only hillbilly tenor in the Orthodox Church.

All along, I did what I was comfortable doing, which was to play the music I enjoyed and try to stretch the parameters a bit. Country and bluegrass and folk were my foundation.

Those Laurel Canyon days were great. I have a real fondness for that era, 'til about '68. Musically, it was wonderful, and there was this great innocence, an idyllic view of the world. After that, everything got a little... edgy.

Sixty is the new 40, ... That's about the only thing of Bill Maher's I agree with.

Underlying everything is a country-folk foundation. You're not going to see us do a Metallica or Snoop Dogg song.

You don't ever want to touch that money,

We couldn't get played on FM rock or country radio. Now the Burritos are more popular than ever. Who knew?

We had to guess each year what interest rates would do in the coming year, which is difficult to do in today's markets, and budget for that,

You're bare naked up there. It's very one-dimensional. You have to take that vision and enlarge it into a two- or three-dimensional presentation. It keeps me on my toes. I wouldn't go back for any amount of money.

This bond will help keep utility rates for our residents as low as we can make them,

If you could ask that question more precisely, you probably wouldn't be interested in the answer anymore

Nathan McEuen's light is shining bright. A fine singer, guitarist and an excellent songwriter. There is hope on the horizon.

"Go and Say Goodbye" by the Buffalo Springfield stands as one of the first examples of what would later be branded country rock

I think Gram did his best work in co-writes. Sometimes when you're working with one other person, it's such a magical thing. You're editing each other and you're trying to create that one spark.

It's different now but I enjoy it more than I did then. I think I appreciate it more now and I love playing acoustically. This is the way I started. Herb and I met each other forty years ago when we were both eighteen years old, playing bluegrass, and that's what drew me into music, and I enjoyed every particular part of my career. But now I enjoy it because it's the twilight of my career, where I can play what I want and I can play when I want and where I want. And that's the greatest part it all. So it's sort of a right that I've earned. I can record records the way I want to.

All in all, this helps to secure the long-term financial stability of the gas and electric utilities in Eagle Mountain,