Music Quotes

I want to live, I want to give, I've been a miner for a heart of gold.

Starts out slow and then fizzles out altogether.

In the fields of opportunity it's plowing time again.

It's easy to get buried in the past when you try to make a good thing last.

You are like a hurricane, there's calm in your eyes, and I'm getting blown away.

I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flying in the yellow haze of the sun. There were children crying and colors flying all around the chosen ones.

Think I'll roll another number for the road.

We have a thousand points of light for the homeless man. We've got a kinder gentler machine gun hand.

The punches came fast and hard, lying on my back in the school yard.

If I could go back in time and see any band, It would be Link Wray and the Raymen.

That's a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet.

I look at radio as gone ... Piracy is the new radio, that's how music gets around.

I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.

I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.

With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.

The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

The devil fools with the best laid plans.

Old man take a look at my life, I'm a lot like you were.

My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel like playing. Whatever is in my soul at the time is what I want to do. I have, thank god, enough people who are still interested in what I am doing so that I can go out and keep doing it.

No, I wasn't really influenced by that scene. Most of the songs on that album had been written well before Sex Pistols were ever heard of. "The Thrasher" was pretty much me writing about my experiences with Crosby Stills & Nash in the mid-'70s. Do you know Lynyrd Skynyrd almost ended up recording "Powderfinger" before my version came out? We sent them an early demo of it because they wanted to do one of my songs.