Latest Jakob Dylan Quotes from Interviews

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• Of course, I came up around music and fame, but this is still my first time experiencing it all. I'm still going through it like anybody else goes through it. But I'm still doing something I've never done before.

  Jakob Dylan

  Done, Fame, First Time

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm realistic. Getting to everybody is not the goal here. The people you can affect in any way - that's who you want to get to.

  Jakob Dylan

  People, Goal, Realistic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm talking about the '60s really. People go interview these guys and ask them, "Do you still think music can change the world?" I mean, go talk to Graham Nash about that. What's he going to tell you? Ask David Crosby. These guys are still out there. They're playing their hits at Staples Center and those are really valuable songs. I'm talking about a couple of the guys who got knee-deep into really believing music had a great service beyond radio. I believe it did. And I think a lot of those songs are great.

  Jakob Dylan

  Song, Couple, Believe

  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

• Artists are not going to put somebody new in the president's chair. It's all worth the effort; it all needs to be done. But I don't look at songwriting as having the ability to necessarily do that today.

  Jakob Dylan

  Artist, Effort, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think that these are different times, and different things are available to artists, and certain things have become passé. You've already seen the outcome of a lot of things that seemed to have a lot of potential. We've already heard that, and I can't tell you if it made a difference or not. But we already know that artists can do that, and they shouldn't feel threatened by doing it. They're probably not going to change the world. They're going to change a few people's perspectives and maybe make somebody's day at times, if they can.

  Jakob Dylan

  Artist, Thinking, Perspective

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm allowing myself every opportunity, every tool that every other artist should allow themselves to use. If anybody expects me to not use certain language or certain words, like I have some kind of penalty restriction, it's completely unrealistic.

  Jakob Dylan

  Opportunity, Artist, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Folk music is not for a select group of people who feel that maybe he taught them about this music and that it belongs to them. It doesn't belong only to them. It belongs to everyone who's interested in the blueprints of good songwriting.

  Jakob Dylan

  People, Select, Music Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Bob Dylan led me to this kind of music - and it's his and ours. And it's nobody else's.

  Jakob Dylan

  Kind, Dylan

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I do look at songwriting as a lot of work. I don't overintellectualize music as a special medium that only some people deserve to do. I think it's something you do if you put the work in.

  Jakob Dylan

  Thinking, People, Special

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I relate more to the descendants of Galileo Galilei and the Wright brothers than I do to anyone else you might mention. If you could name someone working today who I could relate to, I'd be both surprised and thrilled.

  Jakob Dylan

  Brother, Today

  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

• You have to have a work ethic and you have to be educated in what you're doing. You have to take it seriously. It doesn't mean that everything you do has to be serious. But you've got to have the tools.

  Jakob Dylan

  Mean, Work Ethic, Serious

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

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

  Jakob Dylan

  Song, Songwriting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com