I don't want to make music for people who don't care about music.

[Bob] Dylan began to incorporate things into that scene that were controversial then. He got shouted at in Newport when he played electric guitar, for instance. There was a certain purity that was sought among those people.

Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.

Almost everything The Beatles did was great, and it's hard to improve on. They were our Bach. The way to get around it may be to keep it as simple as possible.

Technology changes nothing.

I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.

The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.