Townes Van Quotes

#1. I started out as a folk singer, and kinda got sidetracked playin' honky tonks and such, but I was always a working musician. I didn't want to be Townes Van Zandt or Guy Clark, but I wanted to play in front of their audiences, you know what I mean?

Ray Wylie Hubbard

#2. Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.

Steve Earle

#3. come on mama, let's rent us a boat
sail down that gibraltar moat
shed a tear every time we pass tangier

Townes Van Zandt

#4. I'd like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself.

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#5. I don't envision a very long life for myself. I think my life will run out before my work does. I've designed it that way.

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#6. Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.

D.H. Lawrence

#7. Now the dark air is like fire on my skin, And even the moonlight is blinding

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#8. It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin.

Alexander McCall Smith

#9. Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.

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#10. Aloneness is a state of being, whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It's like the difference between being broke and being poor.

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#11. I'm the mold that grunge was grown in.

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#12. There are only two kinds of songs; there's the blues, and there's zip-a-dee-doo-dah,

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#13. I've met Bob Dylan's bodyguards, and if Steve Earle thinks he can stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table, he's sadly mistaken,

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#14. Sorrow and solitude, these are the precious things/ And the only words that are worth remembering.

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#15. Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection.
(V - From Ideology Towards Equilibrium)

John Ralston Saul

#16. Now you wear your skin like iron

Townes Van Zandt

#17. I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.

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#18. What are you, Zombie Slayer Barbie?"
The big man in the back barked a laugh. "You'll pay for that one.

Aria Kane

#19. I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.

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#20. Humans can't live in the present, like animals do. Humans are always thinking about the future or the
past. So it's a veil of tears, man. I don't know anything that's going to benefit me now, except love. I
just need an overwhelming amount of love. And a nap. Mostly a nap.

Townes Van Zandt

#21. Somebody", "somebody" is always what everyone's thinking. Acting like there's nothing you can do yourself is the easy approach. But there's always "somebody" who comes forward. Time went by in the world. I wanted to be that "somebody." I'm sure, right now that "somebody" is "you and me.

Strike Tanaka

#22. My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.

Travis Barker

#23. All of a sudden there's a song - there in your hotel room playing your guitar - and you write it, and two or three years later it will come true. It keeps you on your toes.

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#24. Well I was born a rambler friends, and I intend to die that way. It could be twenty years from now it could be most any day. But if there ain't no whiskey and wimen lord behind those heavenly doors, I'm gonna take my chances down below and of that you can be sure.

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#25. I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.

Oscar Isaac

#26. No other single influence has had so great an impact on this earth as the life of Jesus the Christ.

Ezra Taft Benson

#27. There's only two kinds of music: the blues and zippety doo-dah.

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#28. What I do is between me and the Lord, to examine and possibly alter the state of grace in which I live, and thereby the state of grace of anybody who listens.

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#29. I love hot sauce. It can't be hot enough for me.

Cheryl Hines

#30. I don't envision a long life for myself. Like, I think my life will run out before my work does, y'know? I've designed it that way.

Townes Van Zandt