Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
I love the idea of having a kid who says, 'Yeah, of course I knew about Billie Holiday and Johnny Cash when I was nine years old. '
You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.
Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.
Give us the strength, give us the wisdom, and give us tomorrow.
It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable. . . . Make up new names for them. Instead of a bridge, you can call it a highway, or an overpass. . . . Music should never be harmless. . . . I remember from my earliest years, people speaking, you know, in a certain kind of rhythm and telling stories and sharing experiences in a way that was different in Indian country than it was other places. And I was really struck by this and obviously very affected by it, because it's always come out in my songs.
Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.
All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.
The present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form.
No one has ever become poor from giving.
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was neither a revolution, nor great, nor cultural, and, in particular, not in the least proletarian.