I have to get involved in my own kind of way 'cause I always want to respect my own judgments. I have to respect my own time.
I get stoned, I can't get home, I'm calling long distance on a public saxophone. My head is achin', my back is breakin', feel I got run over by Captain Coconut and his dog named Rover.
You're just like crosstown traffic, so hard to get through to you.
Music is going to break the way because music is in a spiritual thing of its own. It's like the waves of the ocean. You can't just cut out the perfect wave and take it home with you.
You've got to know much more than the mere technicalities of notes. You've got to know sounds and what goes between the notes.
My sons and their wives landed on Mars to start another race.
The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.
Really I'm just an actor. The only difference between me and those cats in Hollywood is that I write my own script.
Anybody can do anything, it's up to themselves. All it takes is the right intentions.
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction...All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland...I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around...Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
The sweet love between the moon and the deep blue sea.
Let me live my life the way I want to.
All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.
It's time for a new National Anthem. America is divided into two definite divisions. The easy thing to cop out with is sayin' black and white. You can see a black person. But now to get down to the nitty-gritty, it's getting' to be old and young - not the age, but the way of thinking. Old and new, actually... because there's so many even older people that took half their lives to reach a certain point that little kids understand now.
I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.
I try to use my music to move these people to act.
I wouldn't say that I'm the greatest guitarist ever. I'd say probably that I'm the greatest guitarist sitting in this chair.
One time I said: maybe I should burn a guitar tonight. You know smash a guitar or something like that. And they said: yeah, yeah! I said: you really think I should? They said: yeah, that'd be cool. I said: well, ok.
Little Wing is like one of these beautiful girls that come around sometimes ... you play your gig; it's the same thing as the olden days, and these beautiful girls come around.. you do actually fall in love with them because that's the only love you can have. It's not always the physical thing of "Oh, there's one over there ...", it's not one of those scenes. They actually tell you something. They release different things inside themselves ... "Little Wing" was a very sweet girl that came around that gave me her whole life and more if I wanted it.
Spiritually, it's always there. It gets better and better all the time. One of these days I'll just finally release all that out.
It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.
After awhile, your, your cheap talk don't even cause me pain, so let your bullets fly like rain.
I didn't mean to take up all your sweet time... I'll give it right back to you, one of these days
I love Dylan. I only met him once, about three years ago, back at the Kettle of Fish on MacDougal Street. That was before I went to England. I think both of us were pretty drunk at the time, so he probably doesn’t remember it.
Excuse me while I kiss the sky.
Definitely, and it's getting more spiritual. Pretty soon I believe people will have to rely on music to get some kind of peace of mind, or satisfaction, or direction, actually. More so than politics, the big ego scene. You know it's an art of words... Meaning nothing. Therefore you will have to get an earthier substance, like music or the arts.
I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be happy
I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.
Looks like my baby dont live here no more...thats alright, ive still got my guitar..I might as well go back over yonder, way back across the hills, if my baby dont love me no more....i know her...sister will
Sorry for the tune up between time, but what the hell, cowboys are the only ones who stay in tune, anyway.
You have to use fantasy to show different sides to reality. That's how it can bend.
Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.
You have to give people something to dream on.
Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand? I'm going out to find my woman, caught her messing around with another man.
So you want to be married, oh baby, trying to put me on a chain, ain't that some shame? You must be losing your weak little mind.
We want our sound to go into the soul of the audience, and see if it can awaken some little thing in their minds... 'Cause there are so many sleeping people.
Please pass me the peace weed, and take some heed. Throw away all that mixed up speed.
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
The way I write things, I just write them with a clash between reality and fantasy mostly. You have to use fantasy to show different sides of reality; it's how it can bend.
I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.
I think that we honor ourselves by honoring our past.
The smiling portrait of you is still hanging on my frowning wall.
Oh say, can you see, it's really such a mess. Every inch of earth is a fighting nest. Giant pencial and lipstick tube shaped things, continue to rain and cause scream and pain, and the arctic stains from silver blue to bloody red.
When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.
Well, obviously religion must come from inside.
I feel guilty when people say I'm the greatest on the scene. What's good or bad doesn't matter to me; what does matter is feeling and not feeling. If only people would take more of a true view and think in terms of feelings. Your name doesn't mean a damn, it's your talents and feelings that matter. You've got to know much more than just the technicalities of notes; you've got to know what goes between the notes.
A girl asked me if she could comb my hair. Nobody can comb my hair, I can’t even comb my hair.
If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.
Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.
We gotta stop smokin', stop, stop. I mean cigarette smoking.
The truth is straight ahead, so don't burn yourself instead.
With the power of soul, anything is possible.
When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.
My own thing is in my head. I hear sounds and if I don't get them together nobody else will.
The world is nothing but a big gimmick.
Well I stand up next to a mountain, and I chop it down with the edge of my hand
Have you ever been experienced? Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful.
Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love
As you well know, you just can't believe everything you see and hear, can you?
If I live by illusions, you live by excuses.
You know you are a sweet little heart breaker, foxy lady.
I dig Strauss and Wagner, those cats are good...
May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future.
I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.
If my baby don't love me no more, I know her sister will.
I was thinking too fast. It seems like a person has the tendency to get bored, because he always wants to try to do all these accomplishments.
Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armor. Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him, her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground.
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
I want to thank you my sweet darling for digging in the mud and picking me up.
... with Voodoo Child somebody was filming when we started doing that. We did that about three times because they wanted to film us in the studio, to make us (imitates a pompous voice) 'make it look like you're recording boys' - one of them scenes, you know, so okey, let's play this and then we went into Voodoo Child
Your people I do not understand, so to you I shall put an end, and you'll never hear surf music again.
In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.
Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.
Music is a safe kind of high.
Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.
My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
Now if six turned up to be nine, I don't mind, I don't mind.
There are too many heavy songs out nowadays. music has been getting too heavy, almost to the state of unbearable.
Knowledge is speaking, wisdom is listening
Music is my religion.
Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it.
Music is Magic. Magic is Life
Happiness is within you... so unlock the chains from your heart and let yourself grow- like the sweet flower you are. I know the answer- just spread your wings and set yourself free.
I'm a million miles away, and at the same time I'm right here in your picture frame.
The artist draws the people. The whole idea is for people to dig themselves, just mingle around meeting different other people. That's cool.
You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things.
Don't let your imagination take you by surprise.
They've imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes
Lots of the things we do are dangerous, but life itself is dangerous; nothing is really worth bothering with that isn't full of danger
Purple Haze all in my brain, lately things don't seem the same. Actin' funny but I don't know why. 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.
The one that rambles for a million miles, yes, I walk down this road searching for your love.
The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
Freaks, they are very prejudiced. You have to have your hair long and talk in a certain way in order to be with them. In order to be the other way you have to have your hair short and wear ties.
Now if I don't meet you no more in this world, then I'll, I'll meet you in the next one, and don't be late, don't be late, cause I'm a voodoo chile.
Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.
I found myself in too much of a box situation.
Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.
Be respected as being new, and probably a decent change or a help for the human race or whatever, instead of keep carrying the same old burdens around with you.
I want to get up in the morning and just roll over in my bed into an indoor swimming pool. And then swim to the breakfast table.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
The dollar bill is God in the States. All those Pelican people just believe in money and nothing else.
When I'm sad, she comes to me with a thousand smiles.
I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.
Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.
Jesus shouldn't have died so early and then he could have got twice as much across. They killed him and then twisted so many of the best things he said. Human hands started messing it all up and now so much of religion is hogwash.
You're a woman, at least you taste like you are.
I'll always touch you.
You got me sitting on the shelf, while you're out bewitching someone else.
The story of love is hello and goodbye... until we meet again.
Purple haze all in my eyes, don't know if it's day or night. You got me blowin', blowin' my mind. Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?
Don't waste your time thinkin' about bad things.
Genealogists live in the past lane.
Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.
You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
You have to be a freak in order to be different.
I believe everybody should have a room where they get rid of all their releases. So my room was a stage.
If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment.
This morning came on to me, silver wings silhouetted against the child's sunrise.
The Telecaster has two sounds - a good one and a bad one.
Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
May I love you away from the evils of today to the dreams of tomorrow, you know heaven has no sorrow.
This is your life - you must die by yourself, so for heaven's sake, live for yourself and no one else. . . .
I try all night to play a pretty note.
I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.
