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."
The inmates and prisoners, I found they were my kind, and it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind.
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.
The future for me is already a thing of the past - You were my first love and you will be my last
Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.
The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The new order is Rapidly fadin'. And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin'.
Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
..When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail
They say everything can be replaced, Yet every distance is not near. So I remember every face Of every man who put me here. I see my light come shining From the west unto the east. Any day now, any day now, I shall be released.
let me forget about today until tomorrow
Well, you always know who you are. I just don't know who I'm gonna become.
Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise. I mean, you're around awhile, you leave certain things to the young. Don't try to act like you're young. You could really hurt yourself.
Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter.
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
Don't forget to support your public library.
He swift don't win the race. It goes to the worthy, who can divide the word of truth.
It's very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself don't dig you.
In 1975,Bob Dylan was almost 10 years past his prime - and then he released the best album of his career, Blood on the Tracks. Written and recorded amid a painful divorce, Blood on the Tracks is proof that heartbreak makes great art - just as many of the albums that followed were the opposite.
You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live.
Got no religion. Tried a bunch of different religions. The churches are divided. Can't make up their minds and neither can I.
I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word.
The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.
They asked me for some collateral and I pulled down my pants.
In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.
I made a bargain with him, the chief in a world we can't see. (devil)
"America was founded on the backs of slaves."
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