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Quotes · Townes Van Zandt

“Where you been is good and gone, all you keep’s the gettin’ there.”

– Townes Van Zandt, “To Live Is To Fly”, High, Low and In Between, Poppy Records, 1971.

From volume V of the file · Book · 20th century

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More from Townes Van Zandt

“But it don’t pay to think too much, on things you leave behind.”

– Townes Van Zandt, “To Live Is To Fly”, High, Low, and In Between, 1971

“Time was like water but I was the sea: I wouldn’t have noticed it passing.”

– Townes Van Zandt, “Rake”, Delta Momma Blues, Poppy Records, 1970.