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Bob Dylan Quotes about Music

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People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Life, Break Up, Music

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

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Life, Happy Birthday, Music

"It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" (song) (1965)

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

Music, Jesus, Fame

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

When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.

Motivational, Music

"Song: "Like a Rolling Stone"". July 20, 1965.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

Music, Running, Land

Bob Dylan (1970). “Tarantula”

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

Music, Religious, Philosophy

"Dylan Revisited" by David Gates, www.newsweek.com. October 5, 1997.

..When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail

Music, Jail, Busting Out

You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live.

Music, Song, Woody

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

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

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

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

Music, Song, Walks

Bob Dylan, Barry Miles, Pearce Marchbank (1978). “Bob Dylan in his own words”, Music Sales Corp

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

Music, People, Fats

Quoted in David Pickering Brewer's Twentieth Century Music (1994).

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

Music, Ocean, Sinking

Betsy Bowden, Bob Dylan (2001). “Performed Literature: Words and Music by Bob Dylan”, University Press of Amer

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

Music, Ideas, People

The Guardian, February 13, 1992.

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

Music, Drifting Off, Kind

"Bob Dylan Sounds Off On The Origin Of His New Record, Parlor Music, Dr. Dre, And Who His Songs Are About". Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2009.

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