Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.
Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
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.
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 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.
In songs, you have to tell people about something they didn't see and weren't there for, and you have to do it as if you were.
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.
The Rolling Stones are truly the greatest rock and roll band in the world and always will be. The last too. Everything that came after them, metal, rap, punk, new wave, pop-rock, you name it... you can trace it all back to the Rolling Stones. They were the first and the last and no one's ever done it better.
All the people we used to know, they're an illusion to me now.
It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain't got any friends.
Don't follow leaders.
I never wanted to be a prophet or a saviour. Elvis maybe
I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail, poisoned in the bushes, blown out on the trail; hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn, "Come in," she said, "I'll give ya shelter from the storm."
... we're living in a Machiavellian world, whether we like it or we don't.
Art can lead you to God. I think that's the purpose of everything. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's leading you the other way. It's certainly not leading you nowhere.
A cat's meow and cow's moo, I can recite them all.
Well, you always know who you are. I just don't know who I'm gonna become.
Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
let me forget about today until tomorrow
The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through dust no matter how thick.
My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as long as it takes to write it...In writing songs I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie...It's not me, it's the songs. I'm just the postman, I deliver the songs...I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
The inmates and prisoners, I found they were my kind, and it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind.
"America was founded on the backs of slaves."
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