If a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. If he says perhaps he means no. And if he says no, he's the hell of a diplomat.
I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be.
You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.
Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.
Give us the strength, give us the wisdom, and give us tomorrow.
It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable. . . . Make up new names for them. Instead of a bridge, you can call it a highway, or an overpass. . . . Music should never be harmless. . . . I remember from my earliest years, people speaking, you know, in a certain kind of rhythm and telling stories and sharing experiences in a way that was different in Indian country than it was other places. And I was really struck by this and obviously very affected by it, because it's always come out in my songs.
Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.
A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone's working too much. Now everybody's got more leisure time they're complaining they're unemployed. People don't seem to make up their minds what they want.
Broadway has the most savvy audience anywhere. They see everything and they know their theater. As sophisticated and subtle as you think you can be, the houses you get here will want something finer.
If you want something, have it. If you feel like it's forbidden, you'll want it even more. Whenever I have a craving, I go and have it and just make sure I don't have it again the next day.
There's two kinds of pain in sports: the pain of discipline and the pain of regret.