Bob Dylan Quotes About Music

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

  • One was Texas medicine, the other was just railroad gin, and like a fool I mixed them.

    Song: Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again, Album: Blonde On Blonde, 1966
  • Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

    Quoted in David Pickering Brewer's Twentieth Century Music (1994).
  • He not busy being born is busy dying.

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

  • 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.

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

    Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton
  • People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.

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

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

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

    The Guardian, February 13, 1992.
  • 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.

    "Dylan Revisited" by David Gates, www.newsweek.com. October 5, 1997.
  • And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

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

  • A song is anything that can walk by itself.

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

    Bob Dylan (1970). “Tarantula”
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