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.
I want to use songs that everybody knows or thinks they know. I want to show them a different side of it and open up that world in a more unique way. You have to believe what the words are saying and the words are as important as the melody. Unless you believe the song and have lived it, there's little sense in performing it. I never wanted to be a singer that
I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.
I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.
I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.
Every day your memory grows dimmer - it doesn't haunt me like it did before.
The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money.
When you asked me how I was doing, was that some kind of joke
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.
Call me any name you like I will never deny it.
It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be.
He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich.
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?
You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.
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
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.
You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live.
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've got to lose your passion for dumbness.
I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred.
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands
They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.
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
"America was founded on the backs of slaves."
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