American Quotes

I see interracial couples all the time in Nashville. I'm a Jew in Nashville. I'm a gay person in Nashville. It's a non-issue in most of the time. That's a huge leap forward.

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

I mean, I would love to have the career Joan Baez is having in Europe right now, but God knows I don't begrudge her that career.

I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.

I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was receiving. It was only about ten years ago, when I finally put it back in my show because so many people were asking for it, that I understood 'Society's Child' real impact.

I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.

I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.

I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking.

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

At the end of the day, if you don't have a record contract, a studio or a guitar, you can still write songs. You're still an artist. That's something no one can take away.

Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have.

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.

Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.

Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.

To succeed today, you have to set priorities, decide what you stand for.

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.