A Deeper Blue Quotes

“As I read the words to what later became ‘A Song For,’ I was brought to tears.… It was so tragically beautiful. You came running from the bedroom and asked, ‘What’s wrong babe?’ I said Townes, this new song is so beautiful. It’s bound to be my favorite. You replied, ‘Song my ass, that’s a suicide note.’”29”
― Robert Earl Hardy, A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt

“Tired of the rising/tired of the felling [sic]/Forgotten the moon/the sunshine too.” He goes on with a personal message offering”
― Robert Earl Hardy, A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt

“There was a mixture of darkness, light and slapstick going on. Townes could make us feel his pain, laugh and feel hopeful all at the same time. — Jimmie Dale Gilmore”
― Robert Earl Hardy, A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt

“Between taxes and liability insurance and this and that, we ain’t in it for the money, man … we’re out there for one guitar chord, one note, one beam of light in somebody’s mind. We travel 600 miles a day to do it. It’s not the money.”
― Robert Earl Hardy, A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt