Love is all there is, it makes the world go 'round Love and only love, it can't be denied No matter what you think about it You just won't be able to do without it Take a tip from one who's tried
The one who is not being born is dying.
The radio makes hideous sounds.
My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands.
I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.
Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon -but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx -the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?
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.
He swift don't win the race. It goes to the worthy, who can divide the word of truth.
I play these [folk acoustic] concerts and I ask myself, 'Would you come see me tonight?' - and I'd have to answer truthfully, 'No, I wouldn't come. I'd rather be doin' something else, really I would. That something else is rock... The words are pictures, and the rock's gonna help me flesh out the colors of the pictures. (1965)
Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise.
We're living in times where men commit crimes and crime don't have a face.
Every day your memory grows dimmer - it doesn't haunt me like it did before.
It's not a house, it's a home.
In this ocean of hours I'm all the time drinking.
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.
She speaks with a stutter and she and she walks with a hop. I don't know why I love her, but I just can't stop.
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.
I'll be selling tickets for my next tour exclusively through Jonah Lehrer. Make sure to pay cash.
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.
The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.
Sometimes I'm thinkin' I'm Too high to fall Other times I'm thinkin' I'm So low I don't know If I can come up at all
Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.
You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live.
He hands you a nickel, he hands you a dime. He asks you with a grin, if you're having a good time.
"America was founded on the backs of slaves."
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