John Hartford Quotes

• I'm like a child trying to do everything, say everything and be everything all at once.

  John Hartford

  Children, Trying

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• A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo

  John Hartford

  Rough Times, Banjos, No Money

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• The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals.

  John Hartford

  Circles, Everything Happens For A Reason, Spirals

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• Style is based on limitations.

  John Hartford

  Style, Limitation

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• Just when you think it can't get no better, then it does.

  John Hartford

  Thinking, Doe, Life Struggle

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• After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.

  John Hartford

  Sunset, Thinking, Weather

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• What's the use in being different when it's being different that's the same.

  John Hartford

  Life, Being Different, Different

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• Sometimes when a new piece of knowledge comes along you suddenly change your priorities and focus on something completely different instead.

  John Hartford

  Focus, Priorities, Different

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• Time is the most important thing there is. That is the only element that you can't withdraw from the situation and still have the situation exist. Everything depends on time.

  John Hartford

  Important, Elements, Situation

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• You cannot run a successful retail business from memory.

  John Hartford

  Running, Memories, Successful

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• The best way to express rhythm is music.

  John Hartford

  Way, Rhythm, Best Way

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• She dries her eyes and bakes her pies and leaves 'em on the window sill

  John Hartford

  Eye, Pie, Ems

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• Mike Compton knows more about Bill Monroe style mandolin than the Father of Bluegrass himself.

  John Hartford

  Father, Style, Bills

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• You read about somebody, and doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.

  John Hartford

  Real, Character, Matter

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