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" A young person coming up and saying, 'I absolutely love your music,' is very encouraging. "

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" I am so highly skilled that when I pick up a phrase and then pick up my guitar, a form comes out almost immediately - a song - and once I start, I have to finish it. "

" The poet is the voice of the people. And when the poet presents certain ideas, two phrases in one poem can alter a generation's view. So poets have always been feared - and controlled and jailed. "

" I have amassed an enormous amount of songs about every particular condition of humankind - children's songs, marriage songs, death songs, love songs, epic songs, mystical songs, songs of leaving, songs of meeting, songs of wonder. I pretty much have got a song for every occasion. "

" The human race is ill because we have no contact with the lowest level of consciousness. "

" I'm probably the most successful Celtic bard of my generation, who projected this style and this image and this casketful of magical songs all around the world. "

" Myself and The Beatles thought surely there was a way through our fame and success to bring something to our generation to help chill the future out. "

" My father brought me up to be a socialist. "

" In bohemian circles, we were very aware that poetry was missing from popular culture. "

" All of us '60s pop stars came from old cities which had a jazz club, a folk club, a coffee house, and an art school. "

" My music translates again and again to younger generations of players because I broke all the rules, and they can break all the rules now, too. "

" In 1968, I bought a 114-foot yacht, built in 1946, and lived on the Greek islands for a while. We had an extraordinary time in it. Then I gave it to The Beatles. "

" When I was a boy, I had a grand, big tape recorder, and I made late-night radio shows with glasses of water and funny voices. I just loved radio plays. "

" I feel strongly that having a disability in one area makes you explore others instead. "

" Any nobody from the folk blues world could avoid being influenced by Woody Guthrie, who is actually of Scottish-Irish ancestry. "

" Some music will make you dance. Other music helps you release tension. "

" I think my legacy is important because my songs - perhaps more than those of any other songwriter I know - cover every movement from 1965 on, socially and artistically. If you want songs about ecology, I've got ecology songs; if you want songs about spirituality, I've got spiritual songs. "

" Before, it had been fame, and then super-fame came. And then it became super-super-fame. One loses one's personal life, really; you're recognized everywhere. But I embraced that. "

" Blues and jazz are such a root to music. "

" Bohemia isn't somewhere an artist runs to escape society. It's a place where like-minded artists gather to plot the downfall of dogma and ignorance. "

" Actually, I'm the Scottish Woody Guthrie. "

" I absorbed the vinyl of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Jack Elliott, to Michael McClure and then into the Beat poets, Allen Ginsberg. At campus, we were absorbing that stuff. We looked to America. "

" A writer without a pen would be like a duck without water! "

" I went on the Andy Williams show, the Smothers Brothers show, and maybe I shouldn't have. But regrets - I don't think I have any. "

" Publishers and record companies love a broken heart. "

" I think of myself as a poet. I grew up with poetic influences - what I know from my background is the bardic poetry, which came down through oral tradition. "

" Poets have a sense of place. My place was London, and I sang about it. "

" The Faces are my old chums. We used to hang out. "

" I've been vegetarian for many years and only eat fish if I have to. "

" Honors and awards are very interesting, and I truly accept them. I have very high regard for what they mean. What they mean is that they're pointing to the work. "

" I regard myself as an international man, a citizen of the earth. "