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Townes Van Zandt Quotes

I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.

Townes Van Zandt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: March 7, 1944 - January 1, 1997

Topics

Know Kind Why Write Normal Guy

My spirit tells me I cannot be silent.

Me Silent Spirit Cannot Tells

I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.

Comfort Zone Comfort Know Scared

I was a lot more cultured than the other kids in my high school. Because I traveled, I understood different cultures and had a more worldly view. Most of the people I went to high school with had never been outside of California.

School People High School View Never

I wanted a relationship like the one my mother and father had. It wasn't perfect; they had to work on it. But there was an unbelievable mutual respect.

Mary Steenburgen

Work Father Mother Relationship Like

When you are a minority, it's your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work. Then you start to realise, 'Oh, I'm bending a lot,' and they're just standing there existing, and I'm bending around them. But you can't blame them: they don't realise it; that's just how they already existed. It's hard.

Work Love Job Blame Start Someone

For no good reason, George W. Bush and the best and brightest he could muster, including the likes of Paul Bremer and Paul Wolfowitz, decided it made sense to attack Iraq.

Good Best Reason Attack Sense Made

When we exercise, it feels like we're really out there doing something, whereas spending a few minutes with your eyes closed in meditation may feel a little, well, wimpy.

Eyes Feel Doing Exercise Meditation

I don't regret anything about my younger career, mainly because we were children and didn't have too much power, but also because it gave us the privilege to be where we are now.

Power Children Regret Career Now Us

I've had a blessed life. I've pulled back from trying to control my destiny and gone back to accepting whatever fate has in store for me. I live for today because I don't know what'll happen tomorrow.

Life Live Today Tomorrow Me Blessed

It was a weird stage of my life, to leave Simon & Garfunkel at the height of our success and become a math teacher. I would talk them through a math problem and ask if anyone had any questions, and they would say, 'What were the Beatles like?'

Life Success Teacher Weird Problem

You must stand for something! It does not have to be grand, but it must be a positive that brings light to someone else's darkness.

Anthony Carmona

Positive Light Darkness Stand You

I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard thing to get.

Freedom Creativity Free Feel You

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