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I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.

I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.

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

Technology is mechanical and contrary to the emotions that inform a person's life. The country music field has especially been hit hard by this. All my songs have been written by people who went out of fashion years ago. Just like da Vinci and Renoir and van Gogh. Nobody paints like that anymore. But it can't be wrong to try.

Bob Dylan
Country, Song, Fashion
"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.

Having hits buries a singer in the past. A lot of singers hide in the past because it's safer back there. If you've ever heard today's country music, you'll know what I'm talking about.

Bob Dylan
Country, Past, Talking
"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.

City's just a jungle; more games to play Trapped in the heart of it, tryin' to get away I was raised in the country, I been workin' in the town I been in trouble ever since I set my suitcase down

Bob Dylan
Country, Heart, Games
Bob Dylan (2006). “Lyrics 1962-2001. Testo inglese a fronte”, p.1098, Feltrinelli Editore

So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away, to the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong.

Bob Dylan
Country, Hate, Cutting
Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.516, Simon and Schuster

I love Country Music but what happened to it?

Bob Dylan
Country, Country Love, Happened

The cavalries charged and the Indians died, oh the country was young with God on its side.

Bob Dylan
Country, Politics, Sides
Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

Well I'm living in a foreign country but I'm bound to cross the line. Beauty walks a razor's edge...someday I'll make it mine.

Bob Dylan
Country, Razors, Lines
Song: Shelter From The Storm, 1975

A song is like a dream, and you try to make it come true. They're like strange countries that you have to enter.

Bob Dylan
Dream, Country, Song
Bob Dylan (2004). “Chronicles: Volume One”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

I think of rock 'n' roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not Chicago blues, and modern pop.

Bob Dylan
Country, Thinking, Rocks
"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.

Up north, you could find these radio stations with no name on the dials that played pre-rock 'n' roll things - country blues. We would hear Slim Harpo or Lightnin' Slim and gospel groups, the Dixie Hummingbirds, the Five Blind Boys of Alabama. I was so far north, I didn't even know where Alabama was.

Bob Dylan
Country, Boys, Rocks
"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.

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