Quotes by John Hartford

• 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.
• I'm like a child trying to do everything, say everything and be everything all at once.
• The best way to express rhythm is music.
• The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals.
• 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.
• You read about somebody, and it doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.