There is nothing so stable as change.
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that’s going on right now in a big way.
What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon – but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx –the world went around, it didn’t stop for a second. It’s sad but true. John Kennedy, right?
Chaos is a friend of mine.
I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.
He who is not busy being born is busy dying.
Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I’m not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I’ve never thought about that before! He said, When you’re not following me, you’re resisting me.
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past — whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around – the music and the ideas.
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
Well, I don’t know, but I’ve been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.
Money doesn’t talk, it swears.
I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.
You know I don’t wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn’t make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious…
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