* some views expressed in these quotations not neccesarily endorsed by the author of this file.
* for entertainment only - history is not an exact science - dates and quotes not guaranteed for accuracy.
I'll play it first and tell you what it is afterwards.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you
are a minority of one.
The only thing to do with a folk melody, once you have played
it, is to play it louder.
A folksinger is someone who sings through his nose by ear.
If I had a hammer, I'd use it on Peter, Paul, and Mary.
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
When you choose your fields of labor, go where
nobody else is willing to go.
I'm not Bob Dylan, you are.
To many he remains the greatest dreamer in music the world has
ever known. His whole life was a dream; and his every effort was a
votive offering to his temple of dreams that temple which he soulght
to make beautiful.
I *must* write for what weighs on my heart, I *must* express.
... I live only in my music, and I have scarcely begun on thing when I
start another. ... With whom need I fear to measure my strength?
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a
few minutes.
Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.
I was actually trying to create an atmosphere that was more redolent
of the time when I became a musician, but not meant as a tribute,
necessarily, to that time. I was just trying to figure out what made
it all seem like, you know, dark chocolate, while everything now is
like light beer.
Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry painting that speaks.
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be
a musician. I often think in music. I live my
daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of
music. . . . I get most joy in life out of music.
Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths
do.
[Jazz] went from the classics to ragtime to
Dixieland to swing to bebop to cool jazz. . . But
it's always jazz. You can put a new dress on her,
a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes you
put on her, she's the same old broad.
I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around.
There are many who maintain a thousand lies, and one is that eminent
painters are strange, harsh, and unbearable in their manner, although
they are really human and humane. And these fools, and not sensible
persons, consider them fantastic and capricious and are loath to
tolerate such characteristics in a painter.
The role of the artist is to transcend conventional wisdom, to
transcend the word of the establishment, to transcend the orthodoxy,
to go beyond and escape what is handed down by the government or what
is said in the media.
Highly gifted, yet meanly endowed; he had too much genius for
so little independence of spirit. He rose above the depressing
influences of low birth to sink under the caresses of the high-born.