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"Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb/I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from/Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there."
"The first thing you notice about New Orleans are the burying grounds - the cemeteries - and they're a cold proposition, one of the best things there are here. Going by, you try to be as quiet as possible, better to let them sleep. Greek, Roman, sepulchres- palatial mausoleums made to order, phantomesque, signs and symbols of hidden decay - ghosts of women and men who have sinned and who've died and are now living in tombs. The past doesn't pass away so quickly here. You could be dead for a long time"
"[Bob] Dylan crashed his motorcycle in 1967, and almost died. A few years ago, he referred to the experience as a "transfiguration.""
"In this ocean of hours I'm all the time drinking."
"My love is like some raven at my window with a broken wing."
"In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall."
"I put one on the turntable and when the needle dropped, I was stunned - didn't know whether I was stoned or straight."
"Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule."
"Nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street."
"Fame it's like... When you look through a window, say you pass a little pub, or an inn. You look through the window and you see people talking and carrying on. You,can watch outside the window and see them all being very real with each other. But when you walk into the room, it's over. I don't pay any attention to it."
"I was born a long way from where I belong and I am on my way home."
"The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots."
"I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged."
"The future for me is already a thing of the past - You were my first love and you will be my last"
"You're gonna have to serve somebody."
"Ring the bells for the blind and deaf."
"People call you this or that. But I can't respond because then it seems like I'm defensive, you know, what does it matter, really?"
"There's not even room enough to be anywhere/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.../I was born here and I'll die here against my will/I know it looks like I'm moving, but I'm standing still."
"Technology is mechanical and contrary to the emotions that inform a person's life. The country music field has especially been hit hard by this. All my songs have been written by people who went out of fashion years ago. Just like da Vinci and Renoir and van Gogh. Nobody paints like that anymore. But it can't be wrong to try."
"Don't know which one is worse, doing your own thing or just being cool."