Most of the really good songs are dead true. ... It had to have happened to have the song be there. Every time I've tried to make stuff up it just kind of falls flat. So the majority of my work is something that happened to me, I saw happen to someone else, or a friend of mine told me happened. There is a certain amount of theatrical and poetic license. People are supposed to like it, that's why you're doing it. It's supposed to be fun. It's not brain surgery, it's heart surgery. They're just songs.
Things change all the time, and theyll probably never be the same again. Its just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and wh… - Guy Clark
Things change all the time, and theyll probably never be the same again. Its just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and wh…
- Guy Clark
I've gone a year and not written a song just because I couldn't think of anything. But I always come back to it because there's always that little bu… - Guy Clark
I've gone a year and not written a song just because I couldn't think of anything. But I always come back to it because there's always that little bu…
Ain't no chance if you dont take it. - Guy Clark
Ain't no chance if you dont take it.
I hear this song and I think, Man, this is ... great. This is the best I ever heard this. I forget I'm the one singing. - Guy Clark
I hear this song and I think, Man, this is ... great. This is the best I ever heard this. I forget I'm the one singing.
If I knew where good songs came from, I'd go there more often. - Guy Clark
If I knew where good songs came from, I'd go there more often.
Anything that happens after I write a song...that's fine with me. It's up to the listener to read into it what they need from it. And that's part of … - Guy Clark
Anything that happens after I write a song...that's fine with me. It's up to the listener to read into it what they need from it. And that's part of …
Music is supposed to be entertaining and if it touches you emotionally, so much the better. Sometimes you do it to save your own life, not anybody el… - Guy Clark
Music is supposed to be entertaining and if it touches you emotionally, so much the better. Sometimes you do it to save your own life, not anybody el…
I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags. - Guy Clark
I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags.
All gut strings. Thats just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, its the purest form of guitar making, and I j… - Guy Clark
All gut strings. Thats just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, its the purest form of guitar making, and I j…
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