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I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action.

They came in the thousands from the whole human race to pay their respects at his last resting place.

The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.

Life is just as deadly as it looks, but fiction is more forgiving.

Every day I'll wear your memory like a favorite shirt upon my back

I try to look for the good in everybody, regardless of the way they're labeled.

All audiences should be slightly off balance.

You want the audience to be uncomfortable.

I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself.

I'm a fool with a size one head/
I'll change this heart of mine/
This time, this time

I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do.

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.

I have to remind myself not to set boundaries.

It's amazing what some people read into songs.

There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God.

It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something.

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

Did the tea-time of your soul
Make you long for wilder days
Did you never let Jack Kerouac
Wash over you in waves?

To see both sides of a quarrel, is to judge without hate or alarm

The best thing you've got going for you is individuality.

But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there.

There are only three white blues singers
Geoff Muldaur is at least two of them.

I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs.

I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible.

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.