Townes Van Zandt
Aloneness is a state of being, whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It’s like the difference between being broke and being poor. — Townes Van Zandt, from the documentary Be Here To Love Me (Palm Pictures, 2005)
Category: American Music
Mazzy Star
I’m no foolI know you’re coolI never really wanted your heart. —Mazzy Star, from “Blue Flower,” She Hangs Brightly. (1990)
Jason Molina
… here comes midnight with a dead moon in its jaw … — Jason Molina, from “Farewell Transmission,” The Magnolia Electric Co. (Secretly Canadian, 2003)
Jay Farrar
When you find what matters is what you feelIt arrives, and it disappears — Jay Farrar, song lyric from “Ten Second News,” Trace LP by Son Volt (Warner Bros., 1995)
Tom Waits
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns. ― Tom Waits
Flea
Everything that is not love is cowardice. ― Flea, Acid for the Children (Headline Publishing Group, November 5th 2019)
Lana Del Rey
There’s a hole that’s in my heart all my women try and healThey’re doin’ a good job convincin’ me that it’s not realIt’s heat lightningOh, oh‘Cause there’s a man that’s in my past, there’s a man that’s still right hereHe’s real enough to touch and in my darkest nightsHe’s shinin’ — Elizabeth Grant and Gabriel… Continue reading Lana Del Rey
Henry Rollins
Girls aren’t beautiful, they’re pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else. ― Henry Rollins, Smile, You’re Traveling: Black Coffee Blues Part 3. (2.13.61 October 2000)
Bob Dylan
You can’t be wise and in love at the same time. – Bob Dylan, No Direction Home (2005) Directed by Martin Scorsese.
Tom Waits
There’s no prayer like desire. — Tom Waits, from “Black Market Baby,” Mule Variations. (1999)
The Vale of Soul-Making 