--- title: "1 David Crosby Quotes By Jakob Dylan" description: "1 David Crosby quotes by Jakob Dylan. Plus more from Jakob Dylan and more David Crosby sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/29c/jakob-dylan-11605_believe_i-m-talking-about-the-60s-really-people_1778729.jpg" --- > [I'm talking about the '60s really. People go interview these guys and ask them, "Do you still think music can change the world?" I mean, go talk to Graham Nash about that. What's he going to tell you? Ask David…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jakob-dylan/i-m-talking-about-the-60s-really-people-go-interview-these-guys-and/) [Jakob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jakob-dylan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/29c/jakob-dylan-11605_believe_i-m-talking-about-the-60s-really-people_1778729.jpg) ## More by Jakob Dylan > [My father said it himself in an interview many years ago: 'Husband and wife failed, but mother and father didn't.' I've got a life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jakob-dylan/my-father-said-it-himself-in-an-interview-many-years-ago-husband-and/) [Jakob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jakob-dylan/) > [Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jakob-dylan/those-things-interest-me-a-lot-in-songwriting-the-human-nature-of-how/) [Jakob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jakob-dylan/) > [I don't feel like I chose to do music as much as I made a decision to not stop doing music.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jakob-dylan/i-don-t-feel-like-i-chose-to-do-music-as-much-as-i-made-a-decision-to/) [Jakob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jakob-dylan/) > [Every song you write you think is the last one you're going to manage. You put everything you've got into the song, and you've…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jakob-dylan/every-song-you-write-you-think-is-the-last-one-you-re-going-to-manage/) [Jakob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jakob-dylan/) > [Writing songs is a trade like anything else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jakob-dylan/writing-songs-is-a-trade-like-anything-else/) [Jakob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jakob-dylan/) > [Artists are not going to put somebody new in the president's chair. It's all worth the effort; it all needs to be done. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jakob-dylan/artists-are-not-going-to-put-somebody-new-in-the-president-s-chair-it/) [Jakob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jakob-dylan/) > [I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively - and there were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jakob-dylan/i-always-saw-songwriting-as-the-top-of-the-heap-no-matter-what-else/) [Jakob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jakob-dylan/) > [There are certainly a lot of people - and I won't name names - who are getting by simply on expression. And I guess…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jakob-dylan/there-are-certainly-a-lot-of-people-and-i-won-t-name-names-who-are/) [Jakob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jakob-dylan/) > [I don't want to sing songs and write songs that need to have images behind them that are of a specific time. The times…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jakob-dylan/i-don-t-want-to-sing-songs-and-write-songs-that-need-to-have-images/) [Jakob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jakob-dylan/) > [I do look at songwriting as a lot of work. I don't over-intellectualize music as a special medium that only some people deserve to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jakob-dylan/i-do-look-at-songwriting-as-a-lot-of-work-i-don-t-over/) [Jakob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jakob-dylan/) > [But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jakob-dylan/but-there-s-got-to-be-an-opening-somewhere-here-in-front-of-me/) [Jakob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jakob-dylan/) > [I don't like to sing things that just sound like they're going straight down the tubes, and they're circling the drain, and there's no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jakob-dylan/i-don-t-like-to-sing-things-that-just-sound-like-they-re-going/) [Jakob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jakob-dylan/) > [My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jakob-dylan/my-songs-have-always-had-hope-and-perseverance-in-them-i-never-write/) [Jakob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jakob-dylan/) > [We've all had that experience where we hear a song that we've liked for many years, and we finally hear what the writer tells…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jakob-dylan/we-ve-all-had-that-experience-where-we-hear-a-song-that-we-ve-liked/) [Jakob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jakob-dylan/) > [I'm waiting for my kids to grow up and get into the Offspring and look at me like I'm a total candy-ass.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jakob-dylan/i-m-waiting-for-my-kids-to-grow-up-and-get-into-the-offspring-and/) [Jakob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jakob-dylan/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/david-crosby/jakob-dylan/#itemlist", "name": "1 David Crosby Quotes By Jakob Dylan", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I'm talking about the '60s really. 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