Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie. — 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
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
If I made records for my own pleasure, I would only record Charley Patton songs. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I've never gone for having a great voice, for cultivating one. I'm still not doing it now. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Most songs have bridges in them, to distract listeners from the main verses of a song so they don't get bored. My… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
In the meantime [1965-67], [Bob] Dylan was again writing some of the best love songs in the genre, like "Visions of Johanna,"… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
... When it came time to hire a guitar player ... I didn't even have to think about it ... Mike Bloomfield… — 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
Jesus, that ear. He should donate it to The Smithsonian. Brian Wilson, he made all his records with four tracks, but you… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Along with some of the worst music of Bob Dylan's career ("Self-Portrait," 1970), this period produced some gems - including many songs… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
My songs are personal music, they're not communal. I wouldn't want people singing along with me. It would sound funny. I'm not… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
We're constantly being bombarded by insulting and humiliating music, which people are making for you the way they make those Wonder Bread… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Folk songs are evasive-the truth about life, and life is more or less a lie, but then again that's exactly the way… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as… — 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
The Rolling Stones are truly the greatest rock and roll band in the world and always will be. The last too. Everything… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“But, like Shakespeare, I too am often occupied with the pursuit of my creative endeavors and dealing with all aspects of life's… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to Hey… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“The world don't need any more songs... As a matter of fact, if nobody wrote any songs from this day on, the… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Lay down the song you strum, And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum. — 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
He swift don't win the race. It goes to the worthy, who can divide the word of truth. — 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
[Bob] Dylan's broken-heart songs are so much better. Like "Simple Twist of Fate". — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The highlight of my career? That's easy, Elvis recording one of my songs. — 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
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
"Like a Rolling Stone" [of Bob Dylan] is a kiss-off song like none before or since. — 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
...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
With your silhouette when the sunlight dims Into your eyes where the moonlight swims, And your match-book songs and your gypsy hymns,… — 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