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An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.
I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of times, and it just doesn't work. But I get some good passages, so what I'm going to do is just take sections out of them.
I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.
If you miss someone too much you turn into them ... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church.
Just as with a guitar, you can improvise a guitar solo, and they'd probably be similar each time, but they won't be exactly the same. With the word, it's probably a bit freer than that. I probably repeat myself more musically than I do verbally.
Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.
Dreams are a scientific fact.
I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.
People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future in a kind of curled-up, capsized state.
I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either.
People in the future look back on primitive machinery or technology or painting, and in some ways, it always seems amazingly intricate and finely wrought.
Production is something I've never come to terms with.
Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign.
When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil, drawing. That's how I absorbed it all.
I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.
Let there be more darkness
You can't censor people's dreams.
Superman, Superman, crunchy little Superman. Found you in a Cornflakes box.
I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.
Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.
The universe is based on sullen entropy;
It falls apart as it goes on
I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos.
When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part of their time as The Beatles.
The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was.
After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.
People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.
If you do things out of time you're weird.
After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.
As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.
I don't advocate Stalinist monolithic state structures any more than I advocate capitalistic monoliths. Unfortunately, human society tends to the monolithic, whether you go to the left or right, everybody in leathers, or everybody holding Chairman Mao's book, and if everybody goes to one end of the pitch, I always go to the other.
I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers.
You have to come from somewhere, but you don't have to go back there anymore.
One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.
If people were really naked and everyone knew what each other was thinking, everyone would probably just laugh ... or they'd lock each other up.
Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.