Guy Clark

“There's only two things that money can't buy, and that's love and homegrown tomatoes.”

“Some days you write the song, some days the song writes you.”

“A song ain't nothing in the world but a story just wrote with music to it.”

“Keep it simple. Don't get in the way of the song.”

“I write what I know. I write what I've seen. I write what I've heard.”

“I just try to tell a story and make it rhyme.”

“You can't be a legend in your own lifetime. That's not how it works.”

“It's about the work. It's about getting up every day and doing it.”

“I'm not trying to change the world. I'm just trying to write a good song.”

“If I had to do it over again, I would have been a lot more careful about signing contracts.”

“You've got to be true to yourself. You can't write a song for somebody else.”

“I'm a craftsman. I'm not an artist. I'm a craftsman.”

“I always thought I was a pretty good writer. But I was always a better editor.”