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 DylanAdulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up?
Bob DylanI just wanted a song to sing, and there came a point where I couldn't sing anything...nobo dy else was writing what I wanted to sing. I couldn't find it anywhere. If I could I probably would never have started writing.
Bob DylanMothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun.
Bob Dylan