Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.
A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.
Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think of myself as the one who carries the light bulb.
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.
Some things are too terrible to be true.
People think they know me from my songs. But my repertoire of songs is so wide-ranging that you'd have to be a madman to figure out the characteristics of the person who wrote all those songs.
We're constantly being bombarded by insulting and humiliating music, which people are making for you the way they make those Wonder Bread products. Just as food can be bad for your system, music can be bad for your spiritual and emotional feelings. It might taste good or clever, but in the long run, it's not going to do anything for you.
I’m in awe of McCartney. He’s about the only one that I am in awe of. He can do it all. And he’s never let up... He’s just so damn effortless.
I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.
Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
After a while you earn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.
The radio makes hideous sounds.
I dug it, New York City, all-the streets and the snows and the starving and the five-flight walkups and sleeping in rooms with ten people. I dug the trains and the shadows, the way I dug ore mines and coal mines. I just jumped right to the bottom of New York.
You'll find out when you reach the top, you're on the bottom.
Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship. Ain't that just like my heart, babe. When you kissed my lips?
We're living in times where men commit crimes and crime don't have a face.
I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road.
In this ocean of hours I'm all the time drinking.
Don't forget to support your public library.
Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb/I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from/Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.
If ever asked to look at yourself, don't.
A lot of people from the press want to talk to me, but they never do.
When it came time to hire a guitar player ... I didn't even have to think about it ... Mike Bloomfield was the best guitar player I'd ever heard.
There's enough songs for people to listen to, if they want to listen to songs. For every man, woman and child on earth, they could be sent, probaby, each of them, a hundred records, and never be repeated. There's enough songs. Unless someone's gonna come along with a pure heart and has something to say. That's a different story.
You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you.
"America was founded on the backs of slaves."
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