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"I've never been able to understand the seriousness of it all, the seriousness of pride. People talk, act, live as if they're never going to die. And what do they leave behind? Nothing. Nothing but a mask."
"He not busy being born is busy dying."
"Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards"
"Don't Ask Me Nothing About Nothing, I Just Might Tell You the Truth"
"There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief."
"All the people we used to know, they're an illusion to me now."
"I can picture the color of the song, or the shape of it, or who it is that I'm trying to appeal to, in the song, and what I'm trying to, almost, reinforce my feelings for. And I know that sounds sort of vague and abstract, but I've got a handle on it when I'm doing it."
"Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere."
"There used to be a time when the idea of heroes was important. People grew up sharing those myths and legends and ideals. Now they grow up sharing McDonalds and Disneyland."
"Folk music is a bunch of fat people."
"Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people."
"For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die? Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do."
"The harmonica is the world's best-selling musical instrument. You're welcome."
"An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you'll sort of be alright."
"Don't follow leaders."
"People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book."
"May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung. May you stay forever young."
"The purpose of art is to stop time."
"Music attracts the angels in the universe."
"I just don't hear anyone else making the music I'm making in my head, so I'll have to do it myself."