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Writing Quotes by Bob Dylan
- You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.
- There's enough songs for people to listen to, if they want to listen to songs. For every man, woman and child on earth, they could…
- 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 truest way. Then…
- My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as long as it…
- Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes…
- In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.
- I'm used to writing songs and songs-I can fill em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book (Chronicles, Vol. 1), you gotta…
- 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…
- I don't write the songs; I just write 'em down.
- It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it's like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don't.
- What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what…
- You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.
- You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet,…
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not… — Paulo Coelho
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch