There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor.
What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening – all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn’t one big joke.
The country music stations plays soft but there’s nothing, really nothing to turn off.
Todays the day gonna grab my trombone and blow” Thunder on the Mountain.
While one who sings with his tongue on fire Gargles in the rat race choir Bent out of shape from society’s pliers Cares not to come up any higher But rather get you down in the hole That he’s in.
We are so scared of losing everything that doesn’t mean anything.
James Joyce seemed like the most arrogant man who ever lived, had both his eyes wide open and great faculty of speech, but what he say, I knew not what.
They say everything can be replaced, Yet every distance is not near. So I remember every face Of every man who put me here. I see my light come shining From the west unto the east. Any day now, any day now, I shall be released.
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.
Jesus, that ear. He should donate it to The Smithsonian. Brian Wilson, he made all his records with four tracks, but you couldn’t make his records if you had a hundred tracks today.
People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.
May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.
All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more.
Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn’t see?
You don’t necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they’re poets. I don’t call myself a poet, because I don’t like the word. I’m a trapeze artist.