Townes Van Zandt’s Death – Cause and Date

The country singer Townes Van Zandt died at the age of 52. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Outlaw country singer and songwriter who released “If I Needed You,” “To Live Is to Fly,” and “No Place to Fall.” He has been covered by artists like Andrew Bird and Gillian Welch.

He was married three times and has three children.

Townes was a holy mess, his life a mix of the sublime and the horrific. By the time he died of a heart attack at 52 on New Year’s Day, 1997, the Fort Worth native had written a large batch of enduring songs and become the subject of colorful tales—many of them even true.

Quotes

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I don’t know why I write really depressing songs. I’m a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I’m about normal.

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I’d like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself.

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I don’t envision a very long life for myself. I think my life will run out before my work does. I’ve designed it that way.

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Human’s can’t live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human’s are always thinking about the future or the past.

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What I do is between me and the Lord, to examine and possibly alter the state of grace in which I live, and thereby the state of grace of anybody who listens.