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My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs.

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Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.

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And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.

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I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.

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I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.

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I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.

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I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.

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Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.

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I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot.

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One of the reasons I'm on tour is to meet people. I consider it a reconnaissance. You know, I consider myself like in a military operation. I don't feel like a citizen.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Musician

Born: September 21st, 1934

Died: November 7th, 2016

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