top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal."
Standard
Customized
More
"I really feel fortunate to have been around then because there have been good and bad years in rock but the best years were '55 to early '61. I got to see Buddy Holly and everybody else."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die."
Time
"Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time."
Time
"We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy."
War
"Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!"
Word
"I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it."
Music
"The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy."
Thought
"You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him."
Life
"You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining."
Clarity
"Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing."
Shame
"This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms."
Lie
bottom of page