Harry Chapin Quotes

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.

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.

To know is to care, to care is to act, to act is to make a difference.

We all have the potential to move the world, and the world is ready to be moved.

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.

Be involved with the people with the live hearts, the live eyes, who are committed to something.

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?

When in doubt, do something.

Strum your guitar sing it kid Just write about your feelings not the things you never did Inexperience, it once had cursed me But your youth is no handicap it's what makes you thirsty

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.

All of us should be involved in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.

I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

There are so many colors in the rainbow So many colors in the morning sun So many colors in the flower and I see every one.

If you try to look But you don't touch Then you won't touch But you'll never feel And if you don't feel You'll never cry And if you don't cry Then you'll never heal.

Short stories that's all it's ever been Don't you worry 'bout the ending Babe, before we begin I have seen the sun That's behind the rain I have felt the joy That's behind the pain.

Good dreams don't come cheap You've got to pay for them.

She sings the songs without words Songs that sailors, and blind men, and beggars have heard She knows more of love than the poets can say And her eyes are for something that won't go away.

That's when I asked her where was that actress She said "That was somebody else" And then I asked her why she looked so happy now She said "I finally like myself, at last I like myself.

All my life's a circle; Sunrise and sundown; Moon rolls thru the nighttime; Till the daybreak comes around.

I finally like myself, at last I like myself.

When you're going nowhere, anywhere's a better place to be.

I'd rather make a mistake than do nothing.

We've more important studies than your fantasies and fears You know that rock's been perched up there for a hundred thousand years.

Good dreams don't come cheap, you've got to pay for them and If you just dream when you're asleep this is no way for them to come alive... to survive.

What I'd really like, Dad, is to borrow the car keys.

The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.

It's better sometimes when we don't get to touch our dreams.

And I dream that something's coming And it's not just in the wind It's more than just tomorrow It's more than where we've been It offers me a promise It's telling me, begin!

It's got to be the going, not the getting there, that's good.

Remember when the music Came from wooden boxes strung with silver wire And as we sang the words, it would set our minds on fire, For we believed in things, and so we'd sing.

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon Little boy blue and the man in the moon.

And all the trips you know you missed And all the lips you never kissed Cut through you like a knife. And now you see stretched out before thee Just another story of a life.

But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are.

I guess it's a sequel to our story From the journey 'tween heaven and hell With half the time thinking of what might have been and half thinkin' just as well. I guess only time will tell.

The reason nobody else in my business has any impact is because they're all comatose.

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

She said I've heard you flying high on my radio I answered "It's not all it seems" That's when she laughed and she said, "It's better sometimes When we don't get to touch our dreams.

And the look on her face as she opened the door Was like an old joke told by a friend. It'd taken ten more years but she'd found her smile And I watched the corners start to bend.

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?

Reality is only just a word.

And if our future Lies on the final line Are we brave enough To see the signals and the signs?

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?

I spent a week there one afternoon.

But high up on the mountain When the wind is hitting it If you're watching very closely The rock slips a little bit.

I never really drove a cab, but I do have a hack license in case of emergencies - like no money.

Flowers are red, and green leaves are green. There's no need to see flowers any other way than the way they always have been seen.

You know I need a dream Like I need my breath We need to take the life Before we get the death You know I need your love Like I need the light Yes I need the chance Can it be tonight?

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.