The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.

To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence you have to be loved, to be loved you have to love.

I guess I've learned more from the Clearwater than anything else. All I did was help to plant a seed, and I didn't know what the hell I was doing.

If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable.

I would ask, "How can one have a technological society without research? How can one have research without researching dangerous areas? How can one research dangerous areas without uncovering dangerous information? How can you uncover dangerous information without it falling into the hands of insane people who will sooner or later destroy the human race, if not the whole of life on earth?" Who knows? God only knows!

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

It's a terrible thing being a patriarch. I don't even have a gray beard. But people keep calling me up for advice.