Song Quotes by Bob Dylan

I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.

— Bob Dylan

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

— Bob Dylan

I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul...

— Bob Dylan

Nothing can affect my voice, it's so bad.

— Bob Dylan

I do know what my songs are about.

— Bob Dylan

May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.

— Bob Dylan

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

— Bob Dylan

My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune.

— Bob Dylan

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

— Bob Dylan

If I made records for my own pleasure, I would only record Charley Patton songs.

— Bob Dylan

A song is like a dream, and you try to make it come true. They're like strange countries that you have to…

— Bob Dylan

In songs, you have to tell people about something they didn't see and weren't there for, and you have to do it…

— Bob Dylan

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

— Bob Dylan

Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.

— Bob Dylan

In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.

— Bob Dylan

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

— Bob Dylan

In the meantime [1965-67], [Bob] Dylan was again writing some of the best love songs in the genre, like "Visions of Johanna,"…

— Bob Dylan

Most songs have bridges in them, to distract listeners from the main verses of a song so they don't get bored. My…

— Bob Dylan

And I’ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it And reflect it from the mountain so all souls…

— Bob Dylan

After becoming famous once again - a 1976 song, "Hurricane," even marked a return to protest songwriting - [Bob] Dylan got addicted…

— Bob Dylan

Jesus, that ear. He should donate it to The Smithsonian. Brian Wilson, he made all his records with four tracks, but you…

— Bob Dylan

I need all kinds of songs - fast ones, slow ones, minor key, ballads, rumbas - and they all get juggled around…

— Bob Dylan

... When it came time to hire a guitar player ... I didn't even have to think about it ... Mike Bloomfield…

— Bob Dylan

Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet…

— Bob Dylan

Being singer is different than being an actor, where you call up sources from your own experience that you can apply to…

— Bob Dylan

We're constantly being bombarded by insulting and humiliating music, which people are making for you the way they make those Wonder Bread…

— Bob Dylan

Technology is mechanical and contrary to the emotions that inform a person's life. The country music field has especially been hit hard…

— Bob Dylan

“I've got to know that I'm singing something with truth to it. My songs are different than anybody else's songs. Other artists…

— Bob Dylan

You travel the world, you go see different things. I like to see Shakespeare plays, so I'll go - I mean, even…

— Bob Dylan

The Rolling Stones are truly the greatest rock and roll band in the world and always will be. The last too. Everything…

— Bob Dylan

I want to use songs that everybody knows or thinks they know. I want to show them a different side of it…

— Bob Dylan

My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as…

— Bob Dylan

“I was always fishing for something on the radio. Just like trains and bells, it was part of the soundtrack of my…

— Bob Dylan

Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning…

— Bob Dylan

The people in my songs are all me.

— Bob Dylan

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

— Bob Dylan

Music attracts the angels in the universe.

— Bob Dylan

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

— Bob Dylan

And I'll know my song well before I start singing

— Bob Dylan

Bob has never written a bad song. Bob Dylan is a genius.

— Bob Dylan