“What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.”
Good
“The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.”
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“Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.”
Music“People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.”
Music“You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent God, the all-great God, the Almighty God, the most powerful God, the giver of life God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.”
Death“I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.”
Beauty“I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul.”
Money“I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.”
Good“I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.”
Dreams“At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.”
Life“You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.”
Music“Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.”
Future“You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.”
Experience“A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.”
Freedom“I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.”
Dreams“There is nothing so stable as change.”
Change“Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.”
Money“I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.”
Music“All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.”
Truth“My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.”
Home“What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
Money