come on mama, let's rent us a boat sail down that…

Well I was born a rambler friends, and I intend to die that way. It could be twenty years from now it could be…

— Townes Van Zandt

I've met Bob Dylan's bodyguards, and if Steve Earle thinks he can stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table, he's sadly mistaken,

— Townes Van Zandt

Now you wear your skin like iron

— Townes Van Zandt

I'd like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself.

— Townes Van Zandt

There's only two kinds of music: the blues and zippety doo-dah.

— Townes Van Zandt

Sorrow and solitude, these are the precious things/ And the only words that are worth remembering.

— Townes Van Zandt

Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or…

— Townes Van Zandt

There are only two kinds of songs; there's the blues, and there's zip-a-dee-doo-dah,

— Townes Van Zandt

What I do is between me and the Lord, to examine and possibly alter the state of grace in which I live, and thereby…

— Townes Van Zandt

Im the mold that grunge was grown in.

— Townes Van Zandt

I'm the mold that grunge was grown in.

— Townes Van Zandt

All of a sudden there's a song - there in your hotel room playing your guitar - and you write it, and two or…

— Townes Van Zandt

I was just tapped on the shoulder from above and told to write these songs, as opposed to wanting to be a success in…

— Townes Van Zandt

“The sky is full of silver and gold./ Try to hide the sun./ It can't be done./ Least not for long.”

— Townes Van Zandt

Humans can't live in the present, like animals do. Humans are always thinking about the future or the past. So it's a veil of…

— Townes Van Zandt