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Storybook endings never appear. They're just 'someone's' way of leading us here.
I hate the road so much. I almost go into a cocoon with my own people out there.
It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians
It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.
There is no darkness in this place that we're bound Love is the only thing that matters
I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
I'm not the quiet sensitive little guy I was. I can't be. There's just too much after me.
In the time it takes us to look beyond the lies, we could be sailing in each other's eyes.
I feel it right down in my stomach when I'm in touch with something. I don't know what it is.
It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots
Tennessee helps me open up. I'm much more vulnerable there, more willing to talk about anything.
It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.
If people are willing to buy it and listen to it and they like it and enjoy it, then it's viable.
It's the chance of a lifetime in a lifetime of chance, and it's high time you joined in the dance.
The outlet for my sorrow, that I do feel deeply, and the pain, is the songs. That's where it goes.
The meanings get lost and the teachings get tossed and you don't know what you're going to do next.
How many more idols must you find before you realize that you are the one you have been searching for?
My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man, I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band.
My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it
I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
Down the ancient corridors through the gates of time, run the ghosts of dreams that we have left behind.
There's a heaven on earth that so few ever find, though the map's in your soul and the road's in your mind
For those two years in college I was constantly singing and writing and playing in coffee houses and stuff.
I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
I was playing in bands before high school even. My first band I was in at 14. And we were playing just Beatles.
My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way
I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.
My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
As we hang beneath the heavens, and we hover over hell, our hearts become the instruments we learn to play so well.
I put everything I can into a record. That's what art is for. I take a risk every time I do one with my whole being.
Be On Your Way is one of the favorite songs I've ever written. What a terribly sad song, but what a beautiful melody.
If someone criticizes my child it's gonna hurt me a little bit, but it's my child, you know, and I love it regardless.
I do what I believe in. I do good work, and the people who appreciate it, fine, and those who don't, fine, that's good.
It's only an interim trip. I love the music, but it's really giving me a way in which I can comfortably explore my art.
It's a very important issue to me, trying to wake people up to the fact that we'd better take better care of our planet.
I've been writing a lot of country music again. I've written some bluegrass material. I'm having a good time doing that.
Love like a phantoms lights but hold in the heart, it builds like the empty smile adorning a statue with sightless eyes.
We drank a toast to innocence, we drank a toast to now. And tried to reach beyond the emptiness, but neither one knew how.
You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!
My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to
Longer is not my best song, it's just a classic love song, and every songwriter always dreams of writing a classic love song.
I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine arts as a painter.
He earned his love through discipline, a thundering velvet hand, his gentle means of sculpting souls took me years to understand.
One road was simple acceptance of life, the other road offered sweet peace. When I made my decision, my vision became my release.
People who listen to my records expect the ballads from me. The rock 'n roll is on there because it's another mode of expression.
I have a very sedate life. How often do you see me at a bar in Boulder, Peter? You tell me. I like Boulder. We just don't live that way.
She said she married an architect, who kept her warm and safe and dry. She would like to say she loved the man, but she didn't like to lie.
Wealthy the spirit that knows its own flight. Stealthy the hunter who slays his own fright. Blessed the traveler who journeys the length of the light