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Music Quotes by Bob Dylan
- If you like someone's work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to. Anyone who wants to be…
- We're constantly being bombarded by insulting and humiliating music, which people are making for you the way they make those Wonder Bread products. Just as…
- ... When it came time to hire a guitar player ... I didn't even have to think about it ... Mike Bloomfield was the best…
- ...you could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live ...
- ..When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like…
- 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.…
- Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.
- People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
- A song is anything that can walk by itself.
- This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
- People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
- Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
- He not busy being born is busy dying.
- The radio makes hideous sounds.
- I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
- Folk music is a bunch of fat people.
- 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 life.
- Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't…
- Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of…
- And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.
- I just don't hear anyone else making the music I'm making in my head, so I'll have to do it myself.
- When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.
- Play it fuckin' loud!
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