You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.
People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.
My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune.
When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor.
Anything worth thinking about is worth singing about.
It's very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself don't dig you.
I wanted to read all these books, but I would have to have been in a rest home or something to do that.
Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it's available. When the cost comes down, look out!
New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.
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.
You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more.
Every pleasure's got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don't complain.
It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be.
Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.
Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
Folk music is a bunch of fat people.
Experience teaches that silence terrifies the most.
I think it's the land. The streams, the forests, the vast emptiness. The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots. But I have a love for humankind, a love of truth, and a love of justice.
An artist has gotta 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.
If you want somebody you can trust, trust yourself.
