A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
Feeling funny in my mind, Lord I believe I'm fixing to die Well, I don't mind dying But I hate to leave my children crying Well, I look over yonder to that burying ground Look over yonder to that burying ground Sure seems lonesome, Lord, when the sun goes down
I fought with my twin, the enemy within.
An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you'll sort of be alright.
To live outside the law, you must be honest.
Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes.
Never make it perfect.
Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through.
I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.
If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.
Frank [Sinatra] sang to you, not at you, like so many pop singers today. Even singers of standards. I never wanted to be a singer that sings at somebody. I've always wanted to sing to somebody. I would have gotten that subliminally from Frank many years ago. Hank Williams did that, too. He sang to you.
Don't Ask Me Nothing About Nothing, I Just Might Tell You the Truth
For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die? Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do.
What looks large from a distance, close up ain’t never that big.
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.
Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.
Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I've never thought about that before! He said, When you're not following me, you're resisting me.
Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.
I just don't hear anyone else making the music I'm making in my head, so I'll have to do it myself.
The worth of things can't be measured by what they cost but by what the cost you to get it, that if anything costs you your faith or your family, then the price is too high, and that there are some things that will never wear out.
I can picture the color of the song, or the shape of it, or who it is that I'm trying to appeal to, in the song, and what I'm trying to, almost, reinforce my feelings for. And I know that sounds sort of vague and abstract, but I've got a handle on it when I'm doing it.
There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them In this age of fiberglass I'm searching for a gem The crystal ball up on the wall hasn't shown me nothing yet I've paid the price of solitude, but at last I'm out of debt
the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on
Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.
I'm sittin' on my watch so I can be on time.
"America was founded on the backs of slaves."
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