"Tangled Up in Blue," shifts perspective several times during the song to tell a "tangled" version of [Bob] Dylan's marriage and dissolution. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The song was there before me, before I came along. I just sorta came down and just sorta took it down with… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
That's another way of writing a song, of course. Just talking to somebody that ain't there. That's the best way. That's the… — 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
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
After becoming famous once again - a 1976 song, "Hurricane," even marked a return to protest songwriting - [Bob] Dylan got addicted… — 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
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
“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
My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“I really was never any more than what I was -a folk musician who gazed into the gray mist with tear-blinded eyes… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
Once I can focus in on something, I just play it in my mind until an idea comes from out of nowhere,… — 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
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
There's enough songs for people to listen to, if they want to listen to songs. For every man, woman and child on… — 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
