"Sorrow and solitude, these are the precious things/……" — Townes Van Zandt
"Sorrow and solitude, these are the precious things/ And the only words that are worth remembering."
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15 Quotes by Townes Van Zandt
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I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your…
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There's only two kinds of music: the blues and zippety doo-dah.
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All of a sudden there's a song - there in your hotel room playing your guitar - and you write…
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Well I was born a rambler friends, and I intend to die that way. It could be twenty years from…
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Im the mold that grunge was grown in.
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I don’t envision a long life for myself. Like, I think my life will run out before my work does,…
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I've met Bob Dylan's bodyguards, and if Steve Earle thinks he can stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table, he's sadly…
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There are only two kinds of songs; there's the blues, and there's zip-a-dee-doo-dah,
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Aloneness is a state of being, whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It's like the difference between being broke…
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Now the dark air is like fire on my skin, And even the moonlight is blinding
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Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking…
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I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure…
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