Guy Clark Quotes

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• Ain't no chance if you dont take it.
• I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags.
• Most of the really good songs are dead true. ... It had to have happened to have the song be there. Every time I've tried…
• I've gone a year and not written a song just because I couldn't think of anything. But I always come back to it because there's…
• Interesting little game we play with each other.
• I hear this song and I think, Man, this is ... great. This is the best I ever heard this. I forget I'm the one…
• This is a fantasy fiddle tune. The part you fantasize is the fiddle.
• Anything that happens after I write a song...that's fine with me. It's up to the listener to read into it what they need from it.…
• If I knew where good songs came from, I'd go there more often.
• I love playing and I love singing, and the writing. There's kind of a symbiotic relationship between the writing and the playing.
• Things change all the time, and theyll probably never be the same again. Its just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and…
• Its just something Ive always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one I got, the…
• There arent any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So youre just kind of brought…
• All gut strings. Thats just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, its the purest form…
• I don't know what the outcome will be. I put a couple away for my grandkids, like that. So I don't know, who knows? Maybe…
• I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. And I have no reason…
• I just was apologizing for maybe being a little goofy.
• I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good…
• Mary Gauthier's great. Yeah, we've played a lot of gigs together. She's really wonderful.
• Darrell is really good in the studio. I mean, he has a real working knowledge of how the process works, and what sounds good coming…

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