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Harry Chapin Quotes (1942-1981)

Writer, Singer, Activist
Harry Chapin
Circles
Circles
Wind
Wind
Spoon
Spoon

About Harry Chapin

Harold Forster Chapin (7 December 1942 – 16 July 1981) was an American singer, songwriter, and social activist.

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“I spent a week there one afternoon.”
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“Something's burning somewhere. Does anybody care?”
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“Good dreams don't come cheap
You've got to pay for them.”
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“I never really drove a cab, but I do have a hack license in case of emergencies – like no money.”
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“And if our future
Lies on the final line
Are we brave enough
To see the signals and the signs?”
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“The very day I purchased it,
I christened my guitar
as my monophonic symphony,
six string orchestra.”
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“All my life's a circle;
Sunrise and sundown;
Moon rolls thru the nighttime;
Till the daybreak comes around.”
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“If we say that no one's out there
And we say we're goin' nowhere
And we avoid the question
Is this all that it means?”
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“But high up on the mountain
When the wind is hitting it
If you're watching very closely
The rock slips a little bit...”
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“No straight lines make up my life;
And all my roads have bends;
There's no clear-cut beginnings;
And so far no dead-ends.”
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“We've more important studies than your fantasies and fears
You know that rock's been perched up there for a hundred thousand years.”
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“All my life's a circle;
But I can't tell you why;
Season's spinning round again;
The years keep rollin' by.”
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“You see, I have no real complaints of how you've left your past behind
I guess what gets me worried is you've erased him from your mind.”
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“And the broad who served the whisky
She was a big old friendly girl.
And she tried to fight her empty nights
By smilin' at the world.”
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“Sometimes I get this crazy dream
And I just take off in my car
But you can travel on ten thousand miles
And still stay where you are.”
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“'''And she walked away in silence,
It's strange, how you never know,
But we'd both gotten what we'd asked for,
Such a long, long time ago.”
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“Somebody said...We got to find the words
Got to, got to be an answer there
Somebody said that...You never get heard
'Cause nobody really cares.”
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“And if a woman
She used a life line
As something more than
Some man's servant mother wife time
Well I wonder what would happen to this world.”
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“I'm in the Dance Band on the Titanic
Singing "Nearer my God to thee"
and the icebergs on the starboard bow
Won't you dance with me?”
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“The major thing I'm afraid of is being 65 and saying, 'Gee, I wish I had done this and that, and that.' I want to face old age knowing I've tried all I wanted to try.”
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“Now if a man tried
To take his time on Earth
And prove before he died
What one man's life could be worth,
Well I wonder what would happen to this world.”
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“And she said...
"Flowers are red young man
Green leaves are green
There's no need to see flowers any other way
Than they way they always have been seen."”
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“You see, ten years ago it was the front seat
Drivin' stoned and feelin' no pain.
Now here I am straight and sittin' in the back
Hitting Sixteen Parkside Lane.”
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“Somebody said...Where are the dreamers
Somebody said...Dead
Somebody said...Here comes the holy rollers
Tryin' to sell us all the screamers instead.”
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“Oh, if a man tried
To take his time on earth
And prove before he died
What one man's life could be worth,
I wonder what would happen to this world.”
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Harry Chapin on Circles

“All my life's a circle; But I can't tell you why; Season's spinning round again; The years keep rollin' by.”
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Harry Chapin on Wind

“And the wind will whip your tousled hair, The sun, the rain, the sweet despair, Great tales of love and strife. And somewhere on your path to glory You will write your story of a life.”
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Harry Chapin on Spoon

“And the cat's in the cradle with the silver spoon, Little Boy Blue, and the Man in the Moon When you coming home Dad? I don't know when — we'll get together then, Son, You know we'll have a good time then.”
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About Harry Chapin

Harold Forster Chapin (7 December 1942 – 16 July 1981) was an American singer, songwriter, and social activist.