Musician Quotes

And that's the kind of thing people think, you know, that if you sign up to be a singer-songwriter you know how to deal with people setting up hate websites, or people being obsessed with you and crying when you touch them, but you don't, and you just have to deal with.

And I definitely do that very British thing of, take things with a pinch of salt, stiff upper lip, you know what I mean?

The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.

I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.

How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.

I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east.

If I would have listened, if I would have understood diabetes like I understood music, maybe these things wouldn't have happened.

I'm in showbusiness. I'm an entertainer.

I'm a natural ham. It doesn't bother me to perform.

I write my own songs, and I only see their flaws.

I wear a lot of second hand clothes unless I have a concert and then I wear beaded and sequined second hand clothes. No stylist dresses me although I do have a woman that assists me with the buttons.

I think I've had the slowest, most methodical career in the business.

I think I'm in a really nice position, where I'm sure I could do another show if I wanted to do one, but right now the main thing in my mind is writing songs.

I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he had a great record collection. He had - it was all - these were the songs. So I heard a lot of these songs, like, my whole life, so for me it was easy. I already knew what I was going to sing.

I think as far as self-promotion goes, I probably have a lot to learn.

I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more hurtin' the music was, the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin' the blues myself, but I'm writing them for other people who

I put music on and I drive around town.

I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.

I keep things pretty simple.

I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don't even have a push-button radio. It's just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM. One knob makes it louder, and one knob changes the station. When you're driving, that's all I want.

I got by as a musician since day one. I don't live beyond my means. I have real cheap tastes.

I don't think I've had a more miserable life than a lot of people. I think I've had a pretty lucky life.

I don't spend as much time on my hair as people think. I get out of the shower, whack some grease on there and I'm done.

I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.

I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel.

I blow up fireworks all the time, and I love making milkshakes and banana splits.

Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.

There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague resemblance to the hillbilly gene pool that Elvis came from. People would say, 'You want to be Elvis' and I would say, 'No'.

My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.

When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.