* 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.
If thine enemy wrong thee, buy each of his children a drum.
I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my
parts. It was a force already within me
when I arrived on the scene.
You can knock me down, but you better have a big rock to keep me there.
I don't want to get rich, I just want to live good.
Yesterday I worked in the yard at my farm up in the
country. I hoed my tomatoes, my okra. I dug around
my roses, set out some fig bushes, worked around my
grape vines. I do that kind of stuff. That's my
therapy.
...there is no hip world, there is no straight world. [...] by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.
This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing,
that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts,
but that's what you live for.
I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.
[...] You lose your confidence. I've done that,
but I've always fought my way back. I've just
really bore down, and even if I have to write a few
terrible songs, I eventually work my way back up
to the mark.
A lot of songs you write are just for exercise--just
pencil sharpeners.
I started high school in 1950. Cool was invented in
this period. . . . You never let on what bothered
you.
A man there was, tho' some did count him mad,
The more he cast away, the more he had.
Immediate infinity, a meaningless expression for philosophy, is the
reality, the very essence of music.
Some day they'll go down together
They'll bury them side by side
To few it'll be grief--
To the law a relief--
But it's death for Bonnie and Clyde.