Quotes about son
song writing ems
I don't write the songs; I just write 'em down. Bob Dylan
song singing wells
And I'll know my song well before I start singing
song people singing
My songs are personal music, they're not communal. I wouldn't want people singing along with me. It would sound funny. I'm not playing campfire meetings. I don't remember anyone singing along with Elvis, Carl Perkins or Little Richard.
song i-can
Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.
song writing wanted
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 voice strings
Lay down the song you strum, And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum.
song writing enough
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 records pleasure
If I made records for my own pleasure, I would only record Charley Patton songs.
song home doe
Well, the moral of the story, The moral of this song, Is simply that one should never be Where one does not belong. So when you see your neighbor carryin' somethin', Help him with his load, And don't go mistaking Paradise For that home across the road.
songwriters
I was never a topical songwriter.
song heart soul
I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul...
song dog morning
Down the street the dogs are barking And the day is getting dark. As the night comes in a-falling, The dogs´ll lose their bark And the silent night will shatter From the sounds inside my mind, For I´m one to many mornings And a thousand miles behind. From the crossroads of my doorstep, My eyes they start to fade, As I turn my head back to the room Where my love and I have laid....
song sea political
I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.
song winning race
He swift don't win the race. It goes to the worthy, who can divide the word of truth.
song writing one-day
You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.
song ocean thinking
And I’ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it Then I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin’ But I’ll know my song well before I start singin
song book eye
With your silhouette when the sunlight dims Into your eyes where the moonlight swims, And your match-book songs and your gypsy hymns, Who among them would try to impress you? -Bob Dylan, "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” (1966)
song writing long
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 children 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 book ideas
I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to see all at once, like all the books in the library-everything laying around on all the tables. You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right.
song writing talking
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 believe lexicon
The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.
song long done
Done laid around, done stayed around This old town too long And it seems like I've got to travel on
song writing giving
As long as you give my friend Jonah Lehrer a free pizza, I'll write a song about your restaurant.
song careers easy
The highlight of my career? That's easy, Elvis recording one of my songs.
song lying play
Folk songs are evasive-the truth about life, and life is more or less a lie, but then again that's exactly the way we want it to be. We wouldn't be comfortable with it any other way. A folk song has over a thousand faces and you must meet them all if you want to play this stuff. A folk song might vary in meaning and it might not appear the same from one moment to the next. It depends on who's playing and who's listening.
song heart may
May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.
song mind brilliant
A brilliant 1989 album, Oh Mercy; some career retrospectives; and two albums of American folk songs, with just Bob Dylan and his guitar and harmonica. All that culminated in the Grammy-winning comeback album, Time Out of Mind (1997). Once again, just as Dylan seemed to be out of it, he was back at the top of his game.
song singing terrible
I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.
song fate simple
[Bob] Dylan's broken-heart songs are so much better. Like "Simple Twist of Fate".
song people
The people in my songs are all me.
song pliers care
Bent out of shape from society's pliers, cares not to come up any higher, but rather get you down in the hole that he's in.
song jesus drug
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.