Imagination is the one weapon against reality.
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn't recognize my voice.
I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they're not alone.
I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
It doesn't matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That's my stick.
It's time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.
I'm a real rebel with a cause.
What I need is courage, and this often fails me. And it is also a fact that since my disease, when I am in the fields I am overwhelmed by a feeling of loneliness to such a horrible extent that I shy away from going out. But this will change all the same as time goes on. Only when I stand a painting before my easel do I feel somewhat alive. Never mind, this is going to change too, for now my health is so good that I suppose the physical part of me will gain the victory.
People are more interested in reading bombastic ideas, whether they're positive or negative. Part of me has sort of lost interest in doing criticism because of that. I've always realized that criticism is basically autobiography. Obviously in my criticism, it's very clear that it's autobiography, but I think it's that way for everybody.
The dead they sleep a long, long sleep; The dead they rest, and their rest is deep; The dead have peace, but the living weep.
It is a game before a product, a sport before a market, a show before a business.