Bob Dylan Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• A song is anything that can walk by itself.

  Bob Dylan

  Music, Song, Walks

  Bob Dylan, Barry Miles, Pearce Marchbank (1978). “Bob Dylan in his own words”, Music Sales Corp

• My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Sound, Records

  "Bob Dylan Talks: A Raw and Extensive First Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.rollingstone.com. November 29, 1969.

• You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Writing, Pages

• How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Men, Unanswered Questions

  Song: Blowing In The Wind, Album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, 1963

• There would be brilliant songs, but, as [Bob] Dylan admitted on the recent Martin Scorsese documentary about him (No Direction Home), the specific muse that inspired "It's Alright Ma" would not return.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Home, Would Be

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

• Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, People, Laughing

  Betsy Bowden, Bob Dylan (2001). “Performed Literature: Words and Music by Bob Dylan”, University Press of Amer

• May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Heart, May

  Song: Forever Young

• 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 be sent, probaby, each of them, a hundred records, and never be repeated. There's enough songs. Unless someone's gonna come along with a pure heart and has something to say. That's a different story.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Children, Writing

• Don't criticize what you can't understand.

  Bob Dylan

  Education, Song, Criticism

  The Times They Are A-Changing (1964 song)

• I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.

  Bob Dylan

  Country, Song, Writing

  Bob Dylan (1995). “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

• In songs, you have to tell people about something they didn't see and weren't there for, and you have to do it as if you were.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, People, Ifs

  "Bob Dylan Unleashed". Interview with Mikal Gilmore, www.rollingstone.com. September 27, 2012.

• 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 out the characteristics of the person who wrote all those songs.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Thinking, People

• I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Singing, Terrible

  Bob Dylan (1995). “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

• Bent out of shape from society's pliers, cares not to come up any higher, but rather get you down in the hole that he's in.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Pliers, Care

  Song: It's Alright, Ma, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965

• 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 tell the truth, and it can't be misinterpreted.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Book, Writing

• The people in my songs are all me.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, People

  "Bob Dylan Sounds Off On The Origin Of His New Record, Parlor Music, Dr. Dre, And Who His Songs Are About". Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2009.

• 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 takes to write it...In writing songs I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie...It's not me, it's the songs. I'm just the postman, I deliver the songs...I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Writing, Long

• If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and good. Folk songs had taught me that.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Taught, Folks

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

• Well, the moral of the story, The moral of this song, Is simply that one should never be Where one does not belong. So when you see your neighbor carryin' somethin', Help him with his load, And don't go mistaking Paradise For that home across the road.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Home, Doe

  Song: The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest, Album: John Wesley Harding

• 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 it just becomes a question of how heroic your speech is. To me, it's something to strive after.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Writing, Talking

  Interview with Paul Zollo, americansongwriter.com. January 9, 2012.

• You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live.

  Bob Dylan

  Music, Song, Woody

• Down the street the dogs are barking And the day is getting dark. As the night comes in a-falling, The dogs´ll lose their bark And the silent night will shatter From the sounds inside my mind, For I´m one to many mornings And a thousand miles behind. From the crossroads of my doorstep, My eyes they start to fade, As I turn my head back to the room Where my love and I have laid.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Dog, Morning

• I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Heart, Soul

  Song: Don't Think Twice, It's All Right, Album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, 1963

• In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.

  Bob Dylan

  Wise, Song, Writing

• I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Sea, Political

  Bob Dylan “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

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