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title: "2 Honest Write Quotes By Jakob Dylan"
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> [There are certainly a lot of people - and I won't name names - who are getting by simply on expression. And I guess that's valuable in some sense. But songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To…](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/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/baa/jakob-dylan-11605_grind_there-are-certainly-a-lot-of-people-and_337864.jpg)

> [Songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it and grind it out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jakob-dylan/songs-are-not-better-just-because-they-re-emotionally-honest-to-write/)

[Jakob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jakob-dylan/)

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## 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/)

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