Jakob Dylan Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit.

  Jakob Dylan

  Song, Writing, Looks

• I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively... writing songs was king.

  Jakob Dylan

  Song, Kings, Writing

  Interview with Brian Koppelman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 26, 2008.

• My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

  Jakob Dylan

  Song, Perseverance, Writing

  "Jakob Dylan: 'Writing songs is a trade like anything else'". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2012.

• There are certainly a lot of people - and I won't name names - who are getting by simply on expression. And I guess that's valuable in some sense. But songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it and grind it out.

  Jakob Dylan

  Song, Writing, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The songs I write should only be gauged by what other writers or peers are doing today. If the barometer for all songwriters was to match his body of work, then anyone you might mention alive or dead is a failure. But I've learned to not be too hung up on what's fair or not fair.

  Jakob Dylan

  Song, Writing, Today

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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 we live in today - I mean, there's a lot to work with. But I think that if I was my age in 1975 or 1985, I would have felt the same way because that's what I gravitate toward.

  Jakob Dylan

  Song, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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