It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.

Every corny thing that's said about living with nature - being in harmony with the earth feeling the cycle of the seasons - happens to be true.

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

The sun the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry getting the music out of the way and having only words the spoken word and then see what happens.

Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.

So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

It was all about music about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.

I've seen country music go uptown like we say and I'm proud I was there when it happened.