Tom Chapin Quotes

#1. My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between.

Tom Chapin

#2. Kill them now, cause I need some kicks. I need some kicks, I'm getting bored.

Lou Reed

#3. The sound has grown and sweetened over the years as well, and you can hear it on many of my recordings and, most likely, will see and hear me playing it if you come to a live show.

Tom Chapin

#4. If Fran Lebowitz and Ian Fleming had blessed the world with a love child it would have been author J. Fields Jr.

Edward Medina

#5. Seems like I've been here before, can't remember when I get this funny feeling, we'll be together again; No straight lines make up my life, all my roads have bends; No clearcut beginnings; so far, no dead ends.

Tom Chapin

#6. I am allergic to cats, the cat in 'Don't Stop' was actually a very small fury human.

Ashton Irwin

#7. But what is quackery? It is commonly an attempt to cure the diseases of a man by addressing his body alone. There is need of a physician who shall minister to both soul and body at once, that is, to man. Now he falls between two stools.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition.

Tom Chapin

#9. It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself.

Tom Chapin

#10. When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.

Peter Wright

#11. I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.

Tom Chapin

#12. Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated.

Tom Chapin

#13. Groundhog Day is a lot like a rock concert but the people are better behaved and there's a groundhog involved,

Tom Chapin

#14. I remind you that I belong with great ardor to everyone and for this reason I am suffering immensely for all.

Pio Of Pietrelcina

#15. Sixteen pages! Full sixteen pages! If you don't want to read, use it to make paper bags.Sell the paper pabs and earn a profit. Here comes today's Daily ...

Aziz Nesin

#16. The untented Kosmos my abode,
I pass, a wilful stranger:
My mistress still the open road
And the bright eyes of danger.

R.L.S.

#17. How bad does it have to be before you do something about it?

Amy Jenkins