I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that. — 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
My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I need all kinds of songs - fast ones, slow ones, minor key, ballads, rumbas - and they all get juggled around… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“..And songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
they say every man needs protection, they say every man must fall. yet I swear I see my reflection,some place high above… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I like spiritual songs. They struck me as truthful and serious. They brought me down to earth and they lifted me up… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“All I'd ever done was sing songs that were dead straight and expressed powerful new realities. I had very little in common… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“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 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 had no songs in my repertoire for commercial radio anyway. Songs about debauched bootleggers, mothers that drowned their own children, Cadillacs… — 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
