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Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 22

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Recording studios are filled with technology. They are set in their ways. And to update them means you'd have to change them back. That would be my idea of upgrading. And this will never happen. As far as I know,

Recording studios are filled with technology. They are set in their ways. And to update them means you'd have to change them back. That would be my idea of upgrading. And this will never happen. As far as I know, recording studios are booked all the time. So obviously people like all the improvements. The more technically advanced they are, the more in demand they become.

Mean, Technology, 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.

Whatever colors you have in your mind, I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine.

Color, Shining, Mind

Song: Lay, Lady, Lay, Album: Nashville Skyline, 1969

You know what they say about bein' nice to the right people on the way up Sooner or later you gonna meet them comin' down

Nice, People, Way

Song: Foot of Pride

After becoming famous once again - a 1976 song, "Hurricane," even marked a return to protest songwriting - [Bob] Dylan got addicted to drugs, found Jesus, left Jesus, and put out a lot of swill.

Song, Jesus, Drug

Source: www.thedailybeast.com

People think that singing and playing is easy. It's not. It's easy to strum along, but if you actually want to really play, where it's important, that's a hard thing and not too many people are good at it.

Thinking, Play, People

"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.

What politics I ever learned, I learned in the streets, because it was part of the environment.

Environment, Streets

"Bob Dylan Not Like a Rolling Stone Interview". "Spin" Magazine Interview with Scott Cohen, www.interferenza.com. December 1985.

A record ... is a statement, it's its own statement, its own entity, rather than being about something else. If I was a painter ... I don't paint the chair, I would paint feelings about the chair.

Feelings, Records, Paint

So happy just to be alive, Underneath the sky of blue, On this new morning, new morning, On this new morning with you.

Morning, Blue, Sky

Song: New Morning, Album: New Morning, 1970

In my childhood everything you heard, you could imagine what it looked like. Even singers that I would hear on the radio, I couldn't see what they looked like, so I imagined what they looked like. What they were wearing. What their movements were. Gene Vincent? When I first pictured him, he was a tall, lanky blond-haired guy.

Childhood, Guy, Movement

Why Nicolas Sarkozy is the head of France, [he is] warm and extremely likeable.

France, Likeable, Warm

I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street.

Hands, Evil, Deceit

Song: I Am a Lonesome Hobo, Album: John Wesley Harding

Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane.

War, Boys, Nurse

Song: Talkin' World War III Blues, Album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, 1963

I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you from me.

Goodbye, Beast, Borderline

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

When I think of mystery, I don't think about myself. I think of the universe, like why does the moon rise when the sun falls? Caterpillars turn into butterflies? I really haven't remained a recluse.

Fall, Butterfly, Thinking

"Bob Dylan Not Like a Rolling Stone Interview". "Spin" Magazine Interview with Scott Cohen, www.interferenza.com. December 1985.

I don't know if I call myself a poet or not. I would like to, but I'm not really qualified to make that decision, because I come in on such a back door, that I don't know what a Robert Frost or a [John] Keats or a T.S. Eliot would really think of my stuff.

Thinking, Doors, Decision

Source: www.rightwingbob.com

Some of the old folk singers used to phrase things in an interesting way, and then, I got my style from seeing a lot of outdoor-type poets, who would recite their poetry. When you don't have a guitar, you recite things differently, and there used to be quite a few poets in the jazz clubs, who would recite with a different type of attitude.

Attitude, Guitar, Interesting

Source: www.rightwingbob.com

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.

Thinking, Generations, Radio

"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.

Once I went into songwriting, I figured I had to - I couldn't be a hellfire rock 'n' roller. But I could write hellfire lyrics.

Writing, Rocks, Songwriting

I never did use earphones until into the Eighties or Nineties. I don't like to use earphones. I've never heard anybody sing with earphones effectively. They just give you a false sense of security. A lot of us don't need earphones. I don't think Springsteen or Mick do. But other people more or less have given in. But they ought not to. They don't need to. Especially if they have a good band.

Thinking, People, Giving

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

I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

Jobs, Trying, Realizing

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

There were only a few seats left in coach and Bob found himself seated next to a young female fan. 'I can't believe I'm sitting next to Bob Dylan!' she screamed.'Pinch yourself,' said Bob."

Believe, Fans, Female

Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

Now the wintertime is coming The windows are filled with frost I went to tell everybody But I could not get across Well, I wanna be your lover, baby I don't wanna be your boss Don't say I never warned you When your train gets lost.

Baby, Boss, Frost

Song: It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry

I'm mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it's the only place where I'm happy.

Stage

Being singer is different than being an actor, where you call up sources from your own experience that you can apply to whatever Shakespeare drama you're in. But an actor is pretending to be somebody, a singer isn't. And that's the difference. Singers today have to sing songs where there's very little emotion involved. That and the fact that they have to sing hit records from years gone by doesn't leave a lot of room for any kind of intelligent creativity.

Song, Drama, Creativity

[Bob Dylan] was rarely tender and seldom reached out to anticipate another's needs.

Needs, Bob, Dylan

Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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