Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.
Bob DylanCreativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.
Bob DylanI've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.
Bob DylanThey're selling postcards of the hanging They're painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town Here comes the blind commissioner They've got him in a trance One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker The other is in his pants And the riot squad they're restless They need somewhere to go As Lady and I look out tonight From Desolation Row.
Bob Dylan