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Jim Carroll

I was always the young guy. And when you’re successful when you’re young, it leads to an arrested adolescence or something, y’know.

– Jim Carroll

Jim Carroll

Rock and roll kind of screwed up my voice poetically. I found myself having this ‘Beat’ voice in my poems. It was like this self-fulfilled prophecy because everybody was calling me this rock poet, this Beat poet.

– Jim Carroll

Jim Carroll

These guys were always saying, ‘The minute you get onstage, it’s great, no matter how much you’re hurting.’ But that didn’t work for me. There were some nights I did not want to get out there.

– Jim Carroll

Jim Carroll

It’s always been the same, growing up in Manhattan… the idea of living within a giant archer’s target… for use by the bad Russia bowman with the atomic arrows.

– Jim Carroll

Jim Carroll

I should have stayed an athlete, body well-tuned, cruising around with my accountant in a Porsche, maroon and chrome.

– Jim Carroll

Jim Carroll

When I came back to New York, it was such a joke because I was always referred to as the pure young poet who wasn’t in it for what he could get out of it. And all of a sudden, the pure young poet comes back… and I’m hanging out with the Rolling Stones.

– Jim Carroll

Jim Carroll

I can’t sing that well, but when punk-rock came along, it changed all that.

– Jim Carroll

Jim Carroll

I once said a poet has the right to sing as loudly and vocally as he wants to. Most poets should face a rock n’ roll audience for one night to keep them honest.

– Jim Carroll

Jim Carroll

I love kids that come to shows, little kids coming up to you with braces; like, some kid came up to me in a parking lot outside a show in Santa Cruz – he was about 14 or 15 – and he said, ‘Y’know, I love ‘The Basketball Diaries,’ but I hope your next book of poetry isn’t gonna be as academic as ‘Living at the Movies’ was.’

– Jim Carroll

Jim Carroll

Artists have nothing to do with the deranged, vaguely connected actions of a few celebrated nutcases.

– Jim Carroll

Jim Carroll

I was this Catholic kid, and I never really lost that. I loved the rituals of Catholicism. The mass is a magic ritual; it’s a transubstantiation, and the stations of the cross – I mean, a crown of thorns? Getting whipped? It’s punk rock.

– Jim Carroll

Jim Carroll

When I was about 9 years old, man, I realized that the real thing was not only to do what you were doing totally great, but to look totally great while you were doing it.

– Jim Carroll

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