Townes Van Zandt
Townes Van Zandt
John Townes Van Zandt, best known as Townes Van Zandt, was an American songwriter. In 1983, six years after Emmylou Harris had first popularized it, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard covered his song "Pancho and Lefty", scoring a number one hit on the Billboard country music charts. Much of his life was spent touring various dive bars, often living in cheap motel rooms and backwoods cabins. For much of the 1970s, he lived in a simple shack without electricity or...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth7 March 1944
CountryUnited States of America
I don't envision a very long life for myself. I think my life will run out before my work does. I've designed it that way.
I don’t envision a long life for myself. Like, I think my life will run out before my work does, y’know? I’ve designed it that way.
All of a sudden there's a song - there in your hotel room playing your guitar - and you write it, and two or three years later it will come true. It keeps you on your toes.
Im the mold that grunge was grown in.
Now the dark air is like fire on my skin, And even the moonlight is blinding
Now you wear your skin like iron
What I do is between me and the Lord, to examine and possibly alter the state of grace in which I live, and thereby the state of grace of anybody who listens.
I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.
There's only two kinds of music: the blues and zippety doo-dah.
Sorrow and solitude, these are the precious things/ And the only words that are worth remembering.
I'd like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself.
Well I was born a rambler friends, and I intend to die that way. It could be twenty years from now it could be most any day. But if there ain't no whiskey and wimen lord behind those heavenly doors, I'm gonna take my chances down below and of that you can be sure.
Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.
I've met Bob Dylan's bodyguards, and if Steve Earle thinks he can stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table, he's sadly mistaken,