Townes Van Zandt quotes

Days, up and down they come Like rain on a congadrum Forget most, remember some But don't turn none away Everything is not enough And nothin' is too much to bear Where you been is good and gone All you keep is the getting there To live is to fly Low and high So shake the dust off of your wings And the sleep out of your eyes. (Townes Van Zandt)
What I do is between me and the Lord, to examine and possibly alter the state of grace in which I live, and thereby the state of grace of anybody who listens.
Townes Van Zandt
Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.
Townes Van Zandt
The name she gave was Caroline Daughter of a miner Her ways were free It seemed to me That sunshine walked beside her.
Townes Van Zandt
If I needed you, would you come to me? Would you come to me and ease my pain? If you needed me, I would come to you I'd swim the seas for to ease your pain Well, in the night forlorn, oh, the morning's born And the morning shines with the lights of love And you will miss sunrise if you close your eyes And that would break my heart in twoThe lady's with me now since I showed her how To lay her lily hand in mine Loop and Lil agree, she's a sight to see A treasure for the poor to find.
Townes Van Zandt
I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.
Townes Van Zandt
Pancho was a bandit boys His horse was fast as polished steel Wore his gun outside his pants For all the honest world to feel Pancho met his match you know On the deserts down in Mexico Nobody heard his dying words That's the way it goes All the federales say They could have had him any day They only let him hang around Out of kindness I suppose.
Townes Van Zandt
You have to blow off your family. You have to blow off comfort. You have to blow off money.... You have to blow off your ego. You have to blow off everything except your guitar.
Townes Van Zandt
I don't envision a long life for myself. Like, I think my life will run out before my work does, y'know? I've designed it that way.
Townes Van Zandt
Im the mold that grunge was grown in.
Townes Van Zandt
I'm headed out to Denver to see if I can't find that lovin' Colorado girl of mine The promise in her smile shames the mountains tall She can bring the sun to shining. She can tell the rain to fall. (Townes Van Zandt)
The promise in Her smile, shames the mountains tall. She can bring the sun to shine, tell the rain to fall.
Townes Van Zandt
I'd like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself.
Townes Van Zandt
I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.
Townes Van Zandt
The promise in her smile shames the mountains tall She can bring the sun to shining. She can tell the rain to fall. It's been a long time, Mama, since I heard you call my name, Ah, been a long time since I heard you call my name I got to see my Colorado girl again Be there tomorrow, Mama, don't you cry.
Townes Van Zandt