Quotes from Laura Nyro

I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.

I was raised on the good book Jesus Till I read between the lines Now I don't believe I ever wanna see the morning

Sometimes only poetry can say it. I think there's just this deeper language, and away of putting your world back together again and breaking through barriers.

You can see the walls roar See your brains on the floor Become God Become cripple Become funky

When I write my music I see all the rivers flowing... sensual, spiritual, religious, animal, intellectual.

I lost my eyes In east wind skies Here's where I've cried Where I've tried Where God and the Tendaberry rise Where Quakers and revolutionaries Join for life

I'm not scared of dyin', and I don't really care if it's peace you find in dyin'. Well then let the time be near. And when I die and when I'm gone there'll be one child born and a world to carry on.

If it's peace you find in dying, well then let the time be near.

Emily And her love to be Carved in a heart On a berry tree But it's only a little farewell lovespell Time to design a woman

Nothing cures like time and love.

As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.