Bob Dylan Quotes

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• People are going to say, ‘Well, it’s not very truthful.’ But a songwriter doesn’t care about what’s truthful. What he cares about is what should’ve… Care
• Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work. Any
• Look out your window, and I'll be gone. You're the reason I'm a-traveling on... Gone
• People think they know me from my songs. But my repertoire of songs is so wide-ranging that you'd have to be a madman to figure… All
• Either I'm too sensitive, or else I'm gettin' soft Gettin
• Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp Freedom
• Sometimes I wonder what it's gonna take to find dignity. Dignity
• I am a restless soul hungry perhaps wretched. Hungry
• If you need somebody you can trust, trust yourself Inspirational
• Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Good
• I just wanted a song to sing, and there came a point where I couldn't sing anything...nobo dy else was writing what I wanted to… Anywhere
• How many roads must a man walk down.. Before you can call him a Man.. Call
• Passion is a young man’s game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise. I mean, you’re around awhile, you leave certain… Act
• The ghosts race towards the light, you can almost hear the heavy breathing spirits, all determined to get somewhere. New Orleans, unlike a lot of… All
• Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem. Call
• 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 playing campfire meetings.… Along
• And I'll know my song well before I start singing Inspirational
• I don't write the songs; I just write 'em down. Down
• I’m in awe of McCartney. He’s about the only one that I am in awe of. He can do it all. And he’s never let… All
• I've never gone for having a great voice, for cultivating one. I'm still not doing it now. Cultivating

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