every pleasure's got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don't complain
Frank [Sinatra] sang to you, not at you, like so many pop singers today. Even singers of standards. I never wanted to be a singer that sings at somebody. I've always wanted to sing to somebody. I would have gotten that subliminally from Frank many years ago. Hank Williams did that, too. He sang to you.
I'm sittin' on my watch so I can be on time.
Half of the people can be part right all of the time, Some of the people can be all right part of the time. I think Abraham Lincoln said that. 'I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours,' I said that.
An artist has got to 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. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you'll sort of be alright.
A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
I fought with my twin, the enemy within.
To live outside the law, you must be honest.
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes.
Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through.
I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.
People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book.
If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.
Feeling funny in my mind, Lord I believe I'm fixing to die Well, I don't mind dying But I hate to leave my children crying Well, I look over yonder to that burying ground Look over yonder to that burying ground Sure seems lonesome, Lord, when the sun goes down
Don't Ask Me Nothing About Nothing, I Just Might Tell You the Truth
For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die? Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do.
What looks large from a distance, close up ain’t never that big.
The times they are a-changing.
Come senators, congressmen, Please heed the call, Don't stand in the doorway, Don't block up the hall, For he that gets hurt, Will be he who has stalled, The battle outside ragin', Will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls, For the times they are a-changin'...
Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.
Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.
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 can picture the color of the song, or the shape of it, or who it is that I'm trying to appeal to, in the song, and what I'm trying to, almost, reinforce my feelings for. And I know that sounds sort of vague and abstract, but I've got a handle on it when I'm doing it.
"America was founded on the backs of slaves."
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