I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.
The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money.
let me forget about today until tomorrow
Every day your memory grows dimmer - it doesn't haunt me like it did before.
Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.
When you asked me how I was doing, was that some kind of joke
Call me any name you like I will never deny it.
It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be.
People call you this or that. But I can't respond because then it seems like I'm defensive, you know, what does it matter, really?
He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich.
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)
You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.
I was sick of the way my lyrics had been extrapolated, their meanings subverted into polemics and that I had been anointed as the Big Bubba of Rebellion, High Priest of Protest, the Duke of Disobedience, Leader of the Freeloaders, Kaiser of Apostasy, Archbishop of Anarchy, the Big Cheese. Horrible titles any way you want to look at it. All code words for Outlaw.
Every step of the way we walk the line Your days are numbered, so are mine Time is pilin' up, we struggle and we scrape We're all boxed in, nowhere to escape
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands
I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred.
You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live.
You've got to lose your passion for dumbness.
Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind, Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves, The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach, Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow. Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands, With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, Let me forget about today until tomorrow.
Well now what's the use in dreamin' You got better things to do Dreams never did work for me anyway Even when they did come true
They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.
Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored
I don't really have a retirement plan.
I feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet, putting her in a wheel-barrow and wheeling her down the street.
Ring the bells for the blind and deaf.
"America was founded on the backs of slaves."
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