Having hits buries a singer in the past. A lot of singers hide in the past because it's safer back there. If… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The confessional singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s was in full swing, and Bob Dylan's emotional album [ Blood on the Tracks] resonated… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Being singer is different than being an actor, where you call up sources from your own experience that you can apply to… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Every singer has three or four or five techniques, and you can force them together in different combinations. Some of the techniques… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
We shouldn't confuse singers and performers with actors. Actors will say, "My character this, and my character that." Like beating a dead… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I want to use songs that everybody knows or thinks they know. I want to show them a different side of it… — 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
In my childhood everything you heard, you could imagine what it looked like. Even singers that I would hear on the radio,… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Rod's a great singer. He's got a great voice, but there's no point to put a 30-piece orchestra behind him. I'm not… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Frank [Sinatra] sang to you, not at you, like so many pop singers today. Even singers of standards. I never wanted to… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Some of the old folk singers used to phrase things in an interesting way, and then, I got my style from seeing… — 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
The hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
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 Image
Little red wagon, little red bike, I ain’t no monkey but I know what I like. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image