I think the only music I didn’t listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.
The only art I’ll ever study is stuff I can steal from.
You can’t stand still on one point for your entire life.
She asked for my love and I gave her a dangerous mind.
I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music is fantastic and important.
For here, I’m sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet earth is blue, and there is nothing I can do.
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go.
You can neither win nor lose if you don’t run the race.
The moment you know you know you know.
To be taken seriously about doing something creative and probably travel a lot. That was my motivation. I knew I was good, I knew I could write. I also knew you could get laid really easily.
Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.
There’s just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is, sometimes you get an inside line on what’s really happening. You develop these strange antennae that clue you in to what’s really going on.
There have been times when I’ve written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I’ve taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.
I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.
In my madness I see your face in mine.
Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.
Ground control to Major Tom.
It’s much easier for me to say that, the kind of music I didn’t listen to was pretty much that. I mean everything, from jazz to classical to popular. And Tibetan horns were a great part of it in 1966, ’67.
Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue.
Make the best of every moment. We’re not evolving. We’re not going anywhere.