Top 26 Quotes & Sayings by Paul Kantner

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Paul Kantner.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Paul Lorin Kantner was an American rock musician. He is best known as the co-founder, rhythm guitarist, and vocalist of Jefferson Airplane, a leading psychedelic rock band of the counterculture era. He continued these roles as a member of Jefferson Starship, Jefferson Airplane's successor band.

American - Musician | March 12, 1942 - January 28, 2016

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We're giving RCA another record, and that should finish them.

Paul Kantner

The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.

Paul Kantner

I think most non-Christians who try to be good people are probably better Christians than Christians.

Paul Kantner

We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them.

Paul Kantner

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.

Paul Kantner

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.

Paul Kantner

I don't blame it on the Hell's Angels. I blame it on the people who were there.

Paul Kantner

The studio scene in California is sort of ridiculous anyway.

Paul Kantner

If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.

Paul Kantner

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.

Paul Kantner

The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.

Paul Kantner

You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.

Paul Kantner

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.

Paul Kantner

Maintain yourself and everything maintains itself around you.

Paul Kantner

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.

Paul Kantner

I wouldn't have expected an audience of ours to burn down our equipment.

Paul Kantner

Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.

Paul Kantner

What we're saying now is you have a choice: You can stay, or you can go away.

Paul Kantner

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.

Paul Kantner

I believe the Rolling Stones wanted to play in Golden Gate Park.

Paul Kantner

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.

Paul Kantner

One of the main things we learned as a band in those days was not to be the headliner.

Paul Kantner

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.

Paul Kantner

Life is change, how it differs from the rocks.

Paul Kantner

San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality.

Paul Kantner

At first I was iridescent, then I became transparent, finally I was absent

Paul Kantner