Todd Snider Quotes

It's a circus out there, mama and your baby's got the sideshow blues.

A bad review is a good review. The worst review they can give you is no review at all, and that’s the one they give almost everybody.

I met these surfer kids once, and they imparted some philosophy. They told me that when you surf, you don’t have a goal, and it doesn’t go good or bad. You just do it. You get in the water, and you don’t ask the water to do anything different than it’s doing. You don’t ask the sun to be warmer. You just get in the water, because you want to be in the water. You surf. It doesn’t go well, or go poorly. It goes.

(Skip Litz) was road managing Todd Snider one time, which meant he had to sneak Todd's tiny dog, Lulu, into hotels. In Atlanta, Skip checked Todd into a hotel that didn't accept dogs. Then Skip carried Lulu in his arms, right through the lobby, and a guy behind the hotel desk saw this happening and said, 'Is that a dog?' Skip looked the guy square in the eye and said, 'No.' Then he and Lulu got on the elevator, and no one said another word about it.

All of those guys that I came up studying have at some point mocked my haircut or my style. But I’m not some Texas songwriter. I’m a goddamn dandy from Oregon. High-five! Anyway,