Bob Dylan Quotes

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I find C major to be the key of strength, but also the key of regret. E major is the key of confidence. A-flat major is the key of renunciation.

Bob Dylan

Frank [Sinatra] sang to you, not at you, like so many pop singers today. Even singers of standards. I never wanted to be a singer that sings at somebody. I've always wanted to sing to somebody. I would have gotten that subliminally from Frank many years ago. Hank Williams did that, too. He sang to you.

Bob Dylan

The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through dust no matter how thick.

Bob Dylan

You can't do something forever.

Bob Dylan

You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies. One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes.

Bob Dylan

Too much information about nothing.

Bob Dylan

Just a reminder, if you tell anyone about what happened with Jonah last night, I'll destroy all of my writing and never play music again.

Bob Dylan

Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us, he's content when you're under his thumb. Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him, to survive it you play deaf and dumb.

Bob Dylan

Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle.

Bob Dylan

If you like someone's work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to. Anyone who wants to be a songwriter should listen to as much folk music as they can, study the form and structure of stuff that has been around for 100 years.

Bob Dylan

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

Bob Dylan

But I would not feel so all alone, everybody must get stoned.

Bob Dylan

keep a clean nose, watch the plain-clothes.

Bob Dylan

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?

Bob Dylan

May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung. May you stay forever young.

Bob Dylan

After a while you earn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

Bob Dylan

Every singer has three or four or five techniques, and you can force them together in different combinations. Some of the techniques you discard along the way, and pick up others. But you do need them. It's just like anything. You have to know certain things about what you're doing that other people don't know. Singing has to do with techniques and how many you use at the same time. One alone doesn't work. There's no point to going over three. But you might interchange them whenever you feel like it. It's a bit like alchemy.

Bob Dylan

I was headed for the fantastic lights. No doubt about it. Could it be that I was being deceived? Not likely. I don't think I had enough imagination to be deceived; had no false hope, either. I'd come from a long ways off and had started from a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.

Bob Dylan

I'd been going though his trash. He knocked me down. I was glad to see him, even though he was banging my head against the sidewalk. Afterwards these bums come over and say, 'Did he get much money?' I say, 'Money'? That was Bob Dylan.

Bob Dylan

I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.

Bob Dylan

Sometimes you get out from behind the wheel and let someone else step on the gas.

Bob Dylan

Let me ask you one question Is your money that good Will it buy you forgiveness Do you think that it could I think you will find When your death takes its toll All the money you made Will never buy back your soul

Bob Dylan

We're constantly being bombarded by insulting and humiliating music, which people are making for you the way they make those Wonder Bread products. Just as food can be bad for your system, music can be bad for your spiritual and emotional feelings. It might taste good or clever, but in the long run, it's not going to do anything for you.

Bob Dylan

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

Bob Dylan

You can't be happy by doing something groovy.

Bob Dylan

I saw him making love to you, you forgot to close the garage door.

Bob Dylan

Advertising signs: they con you into thinking you're the one That can do what's never been done That can win what's never been won Meantime life outside goes on all around you

Bob Dylan

People don't live or die, people just float.

Bob Dylan

I need all kinds of songs - fast ones, slow ones, minor key, ballads, rumbas - and they all get juggled around during a live show. I've been trying for years to come up with songs that have the feeling of a Shakespearean drama, so I'm always starting with that.

Bob Dylan

...don't criticize what you can't understand, your sons and your daughters are beyond your command.

Bob Dylan

If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the Nobel Prize.

Bob Dylan

Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.

Bob Dylan

Aretha with no goals, eternally single & one step soft of heaven/ let it be understood that she owns this melody along with her emotional diplomats & her earth & her musical secrets

Bob Dylan

A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they got a lot of forks 'n knives. And they got to cut somethin'.

Bob Dylan

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

Bob Dylan

Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road.

Bob Dylan

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

Can you please crawl out your window? Use your arms and your legs, it won't ruin you

Bob Dylan

I come from way north. We'd listen to radio shows all the time. I think I was the last generation, or pretty close to the last one, that grew up without TV.

Bob Dylan

They'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

A cat's meow and cow's moo, I can recite them all.

Bob Dylan

Inside the museum infinity goes up on trial. Voices echo, 'This is what salvation must be like after a while.' But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.

Bob Dylan

When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.

Bob Dylan

People are going to say, โ€˜Well, itโ€™s not very truthful.โ€™ But a songwriter doesnโ€™t care about whatโ€™s truthful. What he cares about is what shouldโ€™ve happened, what couldโ€™ve happened. Thatโ€™s its own kind of truth. Itโ€™s like people who read Shakespeare plays, but they never see a Shakespeare play. I think they just use his name.

Bob Dylan

Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.

Bob Dylan

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

Ah, current music. What would that be? Ah, really, a lot of it sounds defective to me. It makes me restless.

Bob Dylan

Back seat drivers donโ€™t know the feel of the wheel but they shoโ€™ know how to make a fuss" Bob Dylan/Bonnie Raitt, โ€œLetโ€™s Keep It Between Us,โ€ 1982

Bob Dylan
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