You just have to keep going to find that thing that lets you in the door. Sometimes in life when that day comes and you're given the key, you throw it away.
Bob DylanIt's not me, it's the songs. I'm just the postman, I deliver the songs. When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail. This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway. People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
Bob DylanA lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.
Bob DylanIn the dime stores and bus stationsโจ People talk of situationsโจ Read books, repeat quotationsโจ Draw conclusions on the wallโจ Some speak of the futureโจ My love she speaks softlyโจ She knows thereโs no success like failureโจ And that failureโs no success at all -Bob Dylan, โLove Minus Zero / No Limitโ (1965)
Bob DylanUp north, you could find these radio stations with no name on the dials that played pre-rock 'n' roll things - country blues. We would hear Slim Harpo or Lightnin' Slim and gospel groups, the Dixie Hummingbirds, the Five Blind Boys of Alabama. I was so far north, I didn't even know where Alabama was.
Bob Dylan