I've met Bob Dylan's bodyguards, and if Steve Earle thinks he can stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table, he's sadly mistaken.

- 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…

- Townes Van Zandt

Sorrow and solitude, these are the precious things/ And the only words that are worth remembering.

- 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

There's only two kinds of music: the blues and zippety doo-dah.

- Townes Van Zandt

Now the dark air is like fire on my skin, And even the moonlight is blinding

- 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

Now you wear your skin like iron

- Townes Van Zandt

I'd like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself.

- Townes Van Zandt