R. W. Clark Quotes

I don't know what the outcome will be. I put a couple away for my grandkids, like that. So I don't know, who knows? Maybe I'll start building guitars for a living.

Method actors are like hams.

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

Love is just a chocolate substitute.

I am a natural optimist but there were times when (it seemed like) I was doing nothing but adding up on the back of envelope what I had to pay this month.

There are some very significant changes in the way the fluids are distributed in our body, the way our heart functions initially, and as well as our bone and muscle.

There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.

I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.

The fresh start is always an illusion but a necessary one.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.

I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I'm not a learned musician.

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

It takes resolution to go forth from the ease and beautiful simplicity of a well-formed hypothesis and struggle with amorphous facts.

Disobey. Defy. Take your own time. Fly.

If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves.

I wanted to be great. And I loved Nashville, so that made it easy. I loved the music business. It made it easy for me to stay and make a life here.

In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.

We've got a name for sushi in Georgia... bait

We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism.

One musn't overrate the culture of what used to be called "top people" before the wars. They had charming manners, but they were as ignorant as swans.

I'm a bit of a vagabond - a person who loses time and space because you don't know where you are.

The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do.

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.

No historian should be trusted implicitly.

When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty.

There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.

I don't think anything can touch the expressive range of the guitar.

Music is soaking up things that I see in other people or things that go on in my life, and I put it out there in the form of a song.

I feel like there is great purpose in a lot of my endeavors. I've seen God in the middle of them. I've seen Him be faithful in those things.

Yeah, one of my approaches with my community, my friends, the companies I represent, has been to take the attitude of what I bring instead of what I can get. What can I give?

When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.

Even if you can't prevent another's sorrow, caring will lessen it.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

These have been the most successful years I've ever had. I've been placing well in the contests but more importantly I've been enjoying them. I think those two things go hand-in-hand.

I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.

I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.

I confess I could never see any good reason why dirt should always be a necessary concomitant of poverty.

Its just something Ive always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one I got, the first thing I did was take it apart.

In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.

Your relationships can only be as healthy as you are.

He wakes into music the green forest-bowers.

I think the reason why I never wanted to do a retrospective is because I was scared to go back and look at all this stuff through the years.

Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.

I was over self-medicating back when I was a kid and didn't know it.

Having the urge to write is one thing; acting on it is another.

I only take on roles that I'm passionate about.

Both trials are marred with injustice, both are flawed.