John Hartford Quotations

Humboldt County is strategically located for bio-diesel with soybean processing plants in Emmetsburg, Eagle Grove and Des Moines.

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.

Dairy has the greatest multiplier effect for economic benefit to a community. Studies show dairy is well suited to our agriculture community and our geographic location.

Sometimes when a new piece of knowledge comes along you suddenly change your priorities and focus on something completely different instead.

The best way to express rhythm is music.

Style is based on limitations.

Just when you think it can't get no better, then it does.

What's the use in being different when it's being different that's the same.

You read about somebody, and doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.

You cannot run a successful retail business from memory.

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.

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.

The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals.

She dries her eyes and bakes her pies and leaves 'em on the window sill

Mike Compton knows more about Bill Monroe style mandolin than the Father of Bluegrass himself.

A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo

I'm like a child trying to do everything, say everything and be everything all at once.