Bob Marley
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for. ― Bob Marley
Category: Muscian
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)
Lotus Weinstock
I once wanted to save the world. Now I just want to leave the room with some dignity. — Lotus Weinstock
Henry Rollins
Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness. When I see you, the room swallows me. I find myself at the bottom of the pool. — Henry Rollins
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
Leonard Cohen
As I grew older, I understood that instructions came with this voice. What were these instructions? The instructions were never to lament casually. And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty. — Leonard Cohen
Jack White
I’m one of those people that you have to keep your eye on or I’ll wander off into the woods and forget to come back. — Jack White
Tom Waits
There’s no prayer like desire. — Tom Waits, from “Black Market Baby,” Mule Variations. (1999)
Gregory Alan Isakov
Where were you when I was still kind? — Gregory Alan Isakov, from “Master & A Hound,” This Empty Northern Hemisphere (2009)
The Vale of Soul-Making 