Guy Clark Quotes & Sayings

“I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags.”

“I just was apologizing for maybe being a little goofy.”

“There aren't any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So you're just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is.”

“Things change all the time, and they'll probably never be the same again. It's just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke.”

“It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away.”

“Ain't no chance if you don't take it.”

“Mary Gauthier's great. Yeah, we've played a lot of gigs together. She's really wonderful.”

“But by the time you get there and you get home, it winds up being a lot of time out. So I'm getting the itch to build, I know that. I keep looking at my stacks of wood and what I can do with it.”

“I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. And I have no reason to go play for the folks unless I'm writing new songs so they can sort of feed off one another. And I just try to do the best I can.”

“Well, I had a fiddle that I really can't play, so I loaned it to Darrell. But yeah, he's from another planet.”