It's very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself don't dig you.
The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have titles.
Let me ask you one question Is your money that good Will it buy you forgiveness Do you think that it could I think you will find When your death takes its toll All the money you made Will never buy back your soul
Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
How many deaths will it take 'till we know that too many people have died?
My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.
You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grinin
I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.
Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak too soon For the wheel's still in spin And there's no tellin' who That it's namin' For the loser now Will be later to win For the times they are a-changin'.
Don't get up gentlemen. I'm only passing through!
I'm looking for a woman who's head is mixed up like mine.
I'm not going to read any of these magazines. I mean, because they've just got too much to lose by printing the truth. You know that.
Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land And don't criticize What you can't understand Your sons and your daughters Are beyond your command Your old road is Rapidly agin' Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand For the times they are a-changin'.
The song was there before me, before I came along. I just sorta came down and just sorta took it down with a pencil, but it was there before I came around.
I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to see all at once, like all the books in the library-everything laying around on all the tables. You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right.
Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?
I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy.
The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.
I want to use songs that everybody knows or thinks they know. I want to show them a different side of it and open up that world in a more unique way. You have to believe what the words are saying and the words are as important as the melody. Unless you believe the song and have lived it, there's little sense in performing it. I never wanted to be a singer that
Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.
Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter.
I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.
I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.
I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
"America was founded on the backs of slaves."
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