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Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 11

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I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

Music, Folks, Folk Music

Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

What kind of alchemy could create a perfume that would make a reaction to a person lukewarm, indifferent and apathetic?If such a scent could be made I'd like some.

Scent, Kind, Reactions

"Why Bob Dylan deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature" by Robert Chalmers, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 13, 2016.

Once I can focus in on something, I just play it in my mind until an idea comes from out of nowhere, and it's usually the key to the whole song. It's the idea that matters. It's like electricity was around long before Edison harnessed it.

Song, Play, Ideas

"Bob Dylan interview: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself.

Believe, Voice, Smoking

Bob Dylan (1995). “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

You're gonna have to serve somebody.

Followership

Song: Gotta Serve Somebody

A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.

Breathing, People, Natural

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

Mainstream Culture, Sound, Looks

"Bob Dylan Exclusive Interview: Reveals His Favorite Songwriters, Thoughts On His Own Cult Figure Status". Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2009.

It goes back to the destiny thing.I made a bargain with it, you know, a long time ago. And I'm holding up my end.

Destiny, Long, Ends

"Why Bob Dylan deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature" by Robert Chalmers, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 13, 2016.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

Fathers Day, Home, Wife

Bob Dylan (2005). “Bob Dylan: Inspirations”, p.128, Andrews McMeel Publishing

Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think of myself as the one who carries the light bulb.

Thinking, Light, Ideas

People think they know me from my songs. But my repertoire of songs is so wide-ranging that you'd have to be a madman to figure out the characteristics of the person who wrote all those songs.

Song, Thinking, People

Some things are too terrible to be true.

Terrible, Being True

Song: Honest With Me, Album: Love And Theft, 2001

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.

Music, Running, Spiritual

I dug it, New York City, all-the streets and the snows and the starving and the five-flight walkups and sleeping in rooms with ten people. I dug the trains and the shadows, the way I dug ore mines and coal mines. I just jumped right to the bottom of New York.

New York, Sleep, Cities

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

Privacy, Sells

Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship. Ain't that just like my heart, babe. When you kissed my lips?

Heart, Looks, Ships

Song: Meet Me In The Morning

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

Cat, Cutting, Ears

Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

The radio makes hideous sounds.

Sound, Radio, Hideous

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

We're living in times where men commit crimes and crime don't have a face.

Men, Order, Law

Bob Dylan (2016). “The Lyrics: 1961-2012”, p.704, Gyldendal A/S

You'll find out when you reach the top, you're on the bottom.

Art, Media, Entertainment

Song: Idiot Wind, Album: Blood on the Tracks, 1975

I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road.

Suicide, Hate, Loving You

Song: Dirge, Album: Planet Waves, 1974

In this ocean of hours I'm all the time drinking.

Drinking, Ocean, Hours

Song: Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie

Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb/I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from/Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.

Prayer, Dark, Nerves

"Song: "Not Dark Yet" ("Time Out of Mind")". 1997.

I’m in awe of McCartney. He’s about the only one that I am in awe of. He can do it all. And he’s never let up... He’s just so damn effortless.

Damn, Awe, Effortless

"Bob Dylan on Old America and 'Modern Times'". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.rollingstone.com. May 3, 2007.

When it came time to hire a guitar player ... I didn't even have to think about it ... Mike Bloomfield was the best guitar player I'd ever heard.

Music, Player, Thinking

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