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Bob Dylan Quotes about Writing

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You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

Writing, Artist, People

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

It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it's like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don't.

Inspiration, Writing, Giving

My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as long as it takes to write it...In writing songs I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie...It's not me, it's the songs. I'm just the postman, I deliver the songs...I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

Song, Writing, Long

In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.

Wise, Song, Writing

I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.

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”

You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.

Song, Writing, Pages

I'm used to writing songs and songs-I can fill em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book (Chronicles, Vol. 1), you gotta tell the truth, and it can't be misinterpreted.

Song, Book, Writing

There's enough songs for people to listen to, if they want to listen to songs. For every man, woman and child on earth, they could be sent, probaby, each of them, a hundred records, and never be repeated. There's enough songs. Unless someone's gonna come along with a pure heart and has something to say. That's a different story.

Song, Children, Writing

That's another way of writing a song, of course. Just talking to somebody that ain't there. That's the best way. That's the truest way. Then it just becomes a question of how heroic your speech is. To me, it's something to strive after.

Song, Writing, Talking

Interview with Paul Zollo, americansongwriter.com. January 9, 2012.

I'm good with songs I haven't written, if I like them. I'm glad I didn't write any of them. I already know how they go, so I have more freedom with them. I understand these songs. I've known them for 40 years, 50 years, maybe longer, and they make a lot of sense. So I'm not coming to them like a stranger.

Song, Writing, Years

Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes you just want to do things your way, want to see for yourself what lies behind the misty curtain. It's not like you see songs approaching and invite them in. It's not that easy. You want to write songs that are bigger than life. You want to say something about strange things that have happened to you, strange things you have seen. You have to know and understand something and then go past the vernacular.

Song, Lying, Writing

As long as you give my friend Jonah Lehrer a free pizza, I'll write a song about your restaurant.

Song, Writing, Long

Just a reminder, if you tell anyone about what happened with Jonah last night, I'll destroy all of my writing and never play music again.

Writing, Night, Play

If I could have any job in the world, I'd start out by writing a blog on Wired.com.

Jobs, Writing, World

I don't usually purge myself by writing anything about any type of quote, so-called, relationships.

Writing, Type

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

The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape.

Song, Writing, Knows

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

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 don't write the songs; I just write 'em down.

Song, Writing, Ems

I just wanted a song to sing, and there came a point where I couldn't sing anything...nobo dy else was writing what I wanted to sing. I couldn't find it anywhere. If I could I probably would never have started writing.

Song, Writing, Wanted

You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

Song, Writing, One Day

Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

If you don't have to write songs, why write them? I've got enough where I don't really feel the urge to write anything additional.

Song, Writing, Enough

In the meantime [1965-67], [Bob] Dylan was again writing some of the best love songs in the genre, like "Visions of Johanna," "Just Like a Woman," and "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands."

Song, Best Love, Writing

Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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