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Bob Dylan Quotes

Bob Dylan quotes about song

American Musician May 24, 1941

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Environment affects me a great deal. A lot of the songs were written after the sun went down. And I like storms, I like to stay up during a storm. I get very meditative sometimes, and this one phrase was going through my head: `Work while the day lasts, because the night of death cometh when no man can work.' I don't recall where I heard it. I like preaching, I hear a lot of preaching, and I probably just heard it somewhere. Maybe it's in Psalms, it beats me. But it wouldn't let me go. I was,... Bob Dylan
I count the years and I shed no tears; I'm blinded to what might have been. Nature's voice makes my heart rejoice; play me the wild song of the wind. Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan quote: "Lay down the song you strum, And rest yourself 'neath the..."
Lay down the song you strum, And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings. No voice can hope to hum. Bob Dylan
Q: Is it still possible nowadays to influence the world by songs? To be political by means of messages? A: No, there are newspapers for that. When people want to deal with the world, they should watch television. Q: That's very passive. A: The world has become like that. People are going to the football stadium, they don't play themselves anymore. Q: Did you ever think you could be politically active through your songs? A: No, no, no. If I had wanted to do that, I would have gone to... Bob Dylan
... songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality. Some different republic, some liberated republic... whatever the case, it wasn't that I was anti-popular culture or anything and I had no ambition to stir things up. I just thought of mainstream culture as lame as hell and a big trick. It was like the unbroken sea of frost that lay outside the window and you had to have awkward footgear to walk with. Bob Dylan
And I’ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it Then I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin’ But I’ll know my song well before I start singin Bob Dylan
With your silhouette when the sunlight dims Into your eyes where the moonlight swims, And your match-book songs and your gypsy hymns, Who among them would try to impress you? -Bob Dylan, "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” (1966) Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan quote: "May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung."
May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung. Bob Dylan
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 can get by on their voices and their style, but my songs speak volumes, and all I have to to is lay them down correctly, lyrically, and they'll do what they need to do. Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan quote: "My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on..."
My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record. Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan quote: "You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to..."
You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs. Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan quote: "I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the..."
I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that. Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan quote: "The people in my songs are all me."
The people in my songs are all me. Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan quote: "The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs."
The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs. Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan quote: "A song is anything that can walk by itself."
A song is anything that can walk by itself. Bob Dylan

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