John Martyn famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You can't live in the past, musically if you do, you are dead.
-- John Martyn

#Past #Ifs
I never really expected any of the music business to happen, but I'm glad it did. It was a very cool thing to happen. It was a hobby for me. I used to do it to meet girls. If you had long hair and could play a guitar then you got girls. That's how I started. Then I fell in love with the music and got carried away.
-- John Martyn

#Girl #Hair #Guitar
May you never lay your head down, without a hand to hold. May you never make your bed out in the cold.
-- John Martyn

#Hands #Bed #May
I really don't like being referred to as a folk artist.
-- John Martyn

#Artist #Folks

So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, theres never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.
History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.
I didn't think about anything past tomorrow because anything past tomorrow was just like cloud busting - it depended soley on the person looking at the clouds and it could rain any minute
My greatest day is yet to come. Of all the things that I've accomplished, my greatest day is yet to come. But it will never come if I don't pursue it.
If you do the right thing, the right thing will come down the path.
Same if you had a bad show, it just rolls off you more easily.
Uncertainty is a quality to be cherished, therefore â€“ if not for it, who would dare to undertake anything?

John Martyn famous quotes

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