I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
If I made records for my own pleasure, I would only record Charley Patton songs. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see? — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The song was there before me, before I came along. I just sorta came down and just sorta took it down with… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Once I can focus in on something, I just play it in my mind until an idea comes from out of nowhere,… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
There would be brilliant songs, but, as [Bob] Dylan admitted on the recent Martin Scorsese documentary about him (No Direction Home), the… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
"Tangled Up in Blue," shifts perspective several times during the song to tell a "tangled" version of [Bob] Dylan's marriage and dissolution. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Well, the moral of the story, The moral of this song, Is simply that one should never be Where one does not… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“I really was never any more than what I was -a folk musician who gazed into the gray mist with tear-blinded eyes… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I'm used to writing songs and songs-I can fill em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book (Chronicles, Vol.… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The purpose of music is to elevate the spirit and inspire. Not to help push some product down your throat. It puts… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I'm good with songs I haven't written, if I like them. I'm glad I didn't write any of them. I already know… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I never did use earphones until into the Eighties or Nineties. I don't like to use earphones. I've never heard anybody sing… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
A brilliant 1989 album, Oh Mercy; some career retrospectives; and two albums of American folk songs, with just Bob Dylan and his… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
People talk about Frank Sinatra all the time - and they should talk about Frank - but he had the greatest arrangers.… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
There's enough songs for people to listen to, if they want to listen to songs. For every man, woman and child on… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Once I went into songwriting, I figured I had to - I couldn't be a hellfire rock 'n' roller. But I could… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The Harmonica is the world’s best-selling musical instrument. You’re welcome. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
If you don't have to write songs, why write them? I've got enough where I don't really feel the urge to write… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Once you think you know the song, then you have go and see how other people have done it. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
"Like a Rolling Stone" [of Bob Dylan] is a kiss-off song like none before or since. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
...you could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live ... — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Bent out of shape from society's pliers, cares not to come up any higher, but rather get you down in the hole… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
As long as you give my friend Jonah Lehrer a free pizza, I'll write a song about your restaurant. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Done laid around, done stayed around This old town too long And it seems like I've got to travel on — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The highlight of my career? That's easy, Elvis recording one of my songs. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
[Bob] Dylan's broken-heart songs are so much better. Like "Simple Twist of Fate". — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
He swift don't win the race. It goes to the worthy, who can divide the word of truth. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
You have to look at every one of your songs and be able to identify with them in a meaningful way. You… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying. — Bob Dylan Copy Share
Just a reminder, if you tell anyone about what happened with Jonah last night, I'll destroy all of my writing and never play music… — Bob Dylan Copy Share
Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid — Bob Dylan Copy Share
The drunken politician leaps upon the street where mothers weep, and the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you. — Bob Dylan Copy Share
I gotta friend who spends his life, stabbing my picture with a bowie knife. Dreams of strangling me with a scarf, when my name… — Bob Dylan Copy Share
She speaks with a stutter and she and she walks with a hop. I don't know why I love her, but I just can't… — Bob Dylan Copy Share
The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you've only got ten. — Bob Dylan Copy Share
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