John Hartford Quotes
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After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.
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I'm like a child trying to do everything, say everything and be everything all at once.
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What's the use in being different when it's being different that's the same.
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The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals.
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Time is the most important thing there is. That is the only element that you can't withdraw from the situation and still have the situation exist. Everything depends on time.
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Sometimes when a new piece of knowledge comes along you suddenly change your priorities and focus on something completely different instead.
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She dries her eyes and bakes her pies and leaves 'em on the window sill
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Just when you think it can't get no better, then it does.
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You read about somebody, and doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.
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A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo
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The best way to express rhythm is music.
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Mike Compton knows more about Bill Monroe style mandolin than the Father of Bluegrass himself.
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You cannot run a successful retail business from memory.
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Style is based on limitations.
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