You couldn't really like a bad guitar in 1960 'cause everybody was pretty good. — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
Songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
You might have a favorite band and really dislike one of the records. That's fine. — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
Every song you write you think is the last one you're going to manage. You put everything you've got into the song,… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
I do look at songwriting as a lot of work. I don't over-intellectualize music as a special medium that only some people… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
When you're in the middle of writing a song, you can come up with this whole web of stuff only you know… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
You have to have a work ethic, and you have to be educated in what you're doing. You have to take it… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively - and… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
I'm in an area where I want to make music that I'm thrilled with, but, you know, I do have to worry… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
We've all had that experience where we hear a song that we've liked for many years, and we finally hear what the… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
There's only so many things to sing about, so what's going to make a song appeal to you more than someone else's… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
If all you were left believing was what you were seeing, it'd be nothing but desperate. To have hope, you're going to… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
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… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in. — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
I don't feel like I chose to do music as much as I made a decision to not stop doing music. — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
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… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
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… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively - and there were… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
There are certainly a lot of people - and I won't name names - who are getting by simply on expression. And I guess… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
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… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
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… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed. — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
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… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
