Quotes by Paul Kantner

• I think most non-Christians who try to be good people are probably better Christians than Christians.
• There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant.
• You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.
• You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything.
• You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.
• When we toured... I was hungry to take out people like Jeff Beck in front of us; Fleetwood Mac, just before they hit; Heart, just before they hit.
• What we're saying now is you have a choice: You can stay, or you can go away.
• We're giving RCA another record, and that should finish them.
• We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them.
• If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.
• The studio scene in California is sort of ridiculous anyway.
• The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.
• The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.
• One of the main things we learned as a band in those days was not to be the headliner.
• Maintain yourself and everything maintains itself around you.
• It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.
• Then you get to be involved with all the people, meet all the beautiful girls, get all the good food, get ready and locked in before all the crowds hit.
• I wouldn't have expected an audience of ours to burn down our equipment.
• Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.
• I don't blame it on the Hell's Angels. I blame it on the people who were there.
• I believe the Rolling Stones wanted to play in Golden Gate Park.
• I was raised by the Christian Brothers, who believe in that, fortunately. They were, to me, the most rebellious arm of the Catholic Church - and one of the most liberal and forward thinking.
• Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words.