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
I've never gone for having a great voice, for cultivating one. I'm still not doing it now. — 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
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
... 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
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
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
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
And I’ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it And reflect it from the mountain so all souls… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
People think they know me from my songs. But my repertoire of songs is so wide-ranging that you'd have to be a… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“All I'd ever done was sing songs that were dead straight and expressed powerful new realities. I had very little in common… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I just wanted a song to sing, and there came a point where I couldn't sing anything...nobo dy else was writing what… — 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
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
Technology is mechanical and contrary to the emotions that inform a person's life. The country music field has especially been hit hard… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“I've got to know that I'm singing something with truth to it. My songs are different than anybody else's songs. Other artists… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
You travel the world, you go see different things. I like to see Shakespeare plays, so I'll go - I mean, even… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
It's not me, it's the songs. I'm just the postman, I deliver the songs. When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew… — 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
How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see? — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
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
My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record. — 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
[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
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
...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
I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible. — 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
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
I can picture the color of the song, or the shape of it, or who it is that I'm trying to appeal… — 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
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
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
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
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
She speaks with a stutter and she and she walks with a hop. I don't know why I love her, but I just can't… — Bob Dylan Copy Share
The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you've only got ten. — Bob Dylan Copy Share
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