Folk music is not for a select group of people who feel that maybe he taught them about this music and that it belongs to them. It doesn't belong only to them. It belongs to everyone who's interested in the blueprints of good songwriting.
Jakob DylanI always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively... writing songs was king.
Jakob DylanYou have to have a work ethic and you have to be educated in what you're doing. You have to take it seriously. It doesn't mean that everything you do has to be serious. But you've got to have the tools.
Jakob DylanMy songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.
Jakob Dylan