"You've got to lose your passion for dumbness."
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"In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie."
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"DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about WILL COME TRUE. It's a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it's a fragile feeling, and you put it out there, then someone will kill it. It's best to keep that all inside."
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"Love is all there is, it makes the world go 'round Love and only love, it can't be denied No matter what you think about it You just won't be able to do without it Take a tip from one who's tried"
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"I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word."
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"I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy."
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"The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money."
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"Got no religion. Tried a bunch of different religions. The churches are divided. Can't make up their minds and neither can I."
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"I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave"
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"He's hell bent for destruction, he's afraid and confused, and his brain has been mismanaged with great skill."
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"You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live."
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"There's enough songs for people to listen to, if they want to listen to songs. For every man, woman and child on earth, they could be sent, probaby, each of them, a hundred records, and never be repeated. There's enough songs. Unless someone's gonna come along with a pure heart and has something to say. That's a different story."
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"I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something."
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"The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify."
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"You say you've lost your faith But that's not where it's at You have no faith to lose and you know it"
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"Rod's a great singer. He's got a great voice, but there's no point to put a 30-piece orchestra behind him. I'm not going to knock anybody's right to make a living but you can always tell if somebody's heart and soul is into something, and I didn't think Rod was into it in that way."
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"Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language."
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"Her profession's her religion, her sin is lifelessness."
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"Look out your window, and I'll be gone. You're the reason I'm a-traveling on."
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"Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth. You're an idiot babe, it's a wonder that you still know how to breathe."
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