In a Ramada Inn near the grapevine, they stop to rest for the night. Traveling down south, looking for good times. Visiting old friends feels right.
In the fields of opportunity it’s plowing time again.
You can’t be 20 on Sugar Mountain.
The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we’re creating now, we’re pollinating the universe.
One good thing about the past is that you can’t change it. So there’s no reason to go back. It’s there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what’s happening next.
I like to play with people who can play simple and are not threatened by other musicians thinking they can’t play. And that eliminates 99 percent of the musicians.
Our educational system basically strives for normal-which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside.
Hate was just a legend and war was never known. The people worked together and they lifted many stones.
I want to live, I want to give, I’ve been a miner for a heart of gold.
True love opens the gates of time.
Are you negative in a world that never stops turning on you?
Everybody seems to wonder what it’s like down here. I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around. Everybody knows this is nowhere.
There’s two kinds of love, one is wrong and one is right.
I’m not the same as I was long ago, I’ve learned some new things and I hope that it shows.
The punches came fast and hard, lying on my back in the school yard.
It’s the woman in you that makes you want to play this game.
Hard working people stopping for a drink on the way to work.
All I’m doing is writing it down and putting it in a cadence. Once I get into a cadence, then why should I even stop and wonder what it is? You can do that for the rest of your life, but when it’s coming out, you don’t want to stop it.
I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.
Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.