Bob Dylan Quotes About Dylan

Quotes about: Dylan

• In 1975,Bob Dylan was almost 10 years past his prime - and then he released the best album of his career, Blood on the Tracks. Written and recorded amid a painful divorce, Blood on the Tracks is proof that heartbreak makes great art - just as many of the albums that followed were the opposite.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Divorce, Past

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

• Somebody had to be Bob Dylan. I guess I was best equipped to do the job.

  Bob Dylan

  Jobs, Bob, Dylan

• 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

• I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

  Bob Dylan

  Beauty, Patriotism, Should

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

  Bob Dylan

  Thinking, Answers, Bob

  Bob Dylan (2005). “Bob Dylan: Inspirations”, p.34, Andrews McMeel Publishing

• I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

  Bob Dylan

  Purpose, Chaos, Accepting

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

• Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

  Bob Dylan

  Lying, Want, Way

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

• Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)

  Bob Dylan

  Dad, Grateful, Bob

• Back seat drivers don’t know the feel of the wheel but they sho’ know how to make a fuss" Bob Dylan/Bonnie Raitt, “Let’s Keep It Between Us,” 1982

  Bob Dylan

  Bob, Wheels, 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

  Song, Book, Eye

• In the dime stores and bus stations
 People talk of situations
 Read books, repeat quotations
 Draw conclusions on the wall
 Some speak of the future
 My love she speaks softly
 She knows there’s no success like failure
 And that failure’s no success at all -Bob Dylan, “Love Minus Zero / No Limit” (1965)

  Bob Dylan

  Zero, Wall, Book

  Love Minus Zero/ No Limit (1965 song)

• The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan's hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of holy fools and righteous thieves - the kind of imagery that Dylan's later work would explore more fully.

  Bob Dylan

  Hipster, America, Thieves

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

• Any real Bob Dylan fan would sleep with Jonah Lehrer.

  Bob Dylan

  Real, Sleep, Fans

• Bob Dylan was again an entirely new person - this time old, craggy, cynical, and world-weary, as in "Not Dark Yet".

  Bob Dylan

  Dark, Cynical, World

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• In the meantime [1965-67], [Bob] Dylan was again writing some of the best love songs in the genre, like "Visions of Johanna," "Just Like a Woman," and "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands."

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Best Love, Writing

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

• "Tangled Up in Blue," shifts perspective several times during the song to tell a "tangled" version of [Bob] Dylan's marriage and dissolution.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Blue, Perspective

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

• [Bob Dylan] was rarely tender and seldom reached out to anticipate another's needs.

  Bob Dylan

  Needs, Bob, Dylan

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

• A brilliant 1989 album, Oh Mercy; some career retrospectives; and two albums of American folk songs, with just Bob Dylan and his guitar and harmonica. All that culminated in the Grammy-winning comeback album, Time Out of Mind (1997). Once again, just as Dylan seemed to be out of it, he was back at the top of his game.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Winning, Games

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

• The "joker" here ["All Along the Watchtower" ] is the older [Bob] Dylan himself, whining about exploitation, and the thief's rejoinder re-contextualizes the earlier critique into the religious frames that would become more prominent as time went on.

  Bob Dylan

  Religious, Thieves, Bob

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

• [Bob] Dylan's broken-heart songs are so much better. Like "Simple Twist of Fate".

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Heart, Fate

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• His [Bob Dylan] humour was dry and splendid.

  Bob Dylan

  Dry, Bob, Splendid

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

• There were only a few seats left in coach and Bob found himself seated next to a young female fan. 'I can't believe I'm sitting next to Bob Dylan!' she screamed.'Pinch yourself,' said Bob."

  Bob Dylan

  Believe, Fans, Female

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

• After becoming famous once again - a 1976 song, "Hurricane," even marked a return to protest songwriting - [Bob] Dylan got addicted to drugs, found Jesus, left Jesus, and put out a lot of swill.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Jesus, Drug

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

• Along with some of the worst music of Bob Dylan's career ("Self-Portrait," 1970), this period produced some gems - including many songs recorded with The Band in '67 but not released until years later.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Self, Years

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

• [Bob] Dylan crashed his motorcycle in 1967, and almost died. A few years ago, he referred to the experience as a "transfiguration."

  Bob Dylan

  Years, Motorcycle, Bob

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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