Quotes about son
song tangled perspective
"Tangled Up in Blue," shifts perspective several times during the song to tell a "tangled" version of [Bob] Dylan's marriage and dissolution. Bob Dylan
song taught folks
If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and good. Folk songs had taught me that.
song records sound
My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.
song rolling-stones dylan
"Like a Rolling Stone" [of Bob Dylan] is a kiss-off song like none before or since.
song writing pages
You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.
song home brilliant
There would be brilliant songs, but, as [Bob] Dylan admitted on the recent Martin Scorsese documentary about him (No Direction Home), the specific muse that inspired "It's Alright Ma" would not return.
song laughing people
Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter.
song genius dylan
Bob has never written a bad song. Bob Dylan is a genius.
song down-and pencils
The song was there before me, before I came along. I just sorta came down and just sorta took it down with a pencil, but it was there before I came around.
song worst gems
Along with some of the worst music of Bob Dylan's career ("Self-Portrait," 1970), this period produced some gems - including many songs recorded with The Band in '67 but not released until years later.
song thinking people
People think they know me from my songs. But my repertoire of songs is so wide-ranging that you'd have to be a madman to figure out the characteristics of the person who wrote all those songs.
song people ifs
In songs, you have to tell people about something they didn't see and weren't there for, and you have to do it as if you were.
song men popular-song
How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?
song best-love writing
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 political way
So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time. Billy Bragg
song war islands
I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.
song rain home
But some nights, I must tell you, I go down there after everyone has fallen asleep. I swim back and forth in the echoing blackness. I sing a love song as well as I can, lost for a while in the home of the rain. Billy Collins
song killers
The Killer in me is the Killer in you. Billy Corgan
song writing light
Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And the light is the color red and red reminds you of the color your not supposed to wear around a bull. So you name the song 'Cow.'
song titles wrapping
The title of a song is like the wrapping on a present.
song children guitar
I was playing heavy metal when I was 18. I had to evolve out of that into an alternative consciousness about what it meant to change the way I played guitar, and the kind of songs, and the subject matter, and singing about child abuse, and all this stuff. I had to come from somewhere, and I had to take chances to do that.
song band pumpkin
Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs.
song simple play
It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play.
song made instance
In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.
song play people
People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.
song thinking play
The reason I don't play any of the old songs is because I really honor my old band, and I think that those songs are best served within the context of that band.
song men thinking
I have a hard time thinking of men trying to sing my songs, because I think my perspective is definitely feminine.
song want
I want to make great songs.
song drug musical
What happened during the previews of Taboo [ musical] was that it was the first time I'd ever been written about as a great song-writer - I cried. I absolutely wept, because it wasn't the usual stuff like, "Oh, he was a drug addict and he did this and that . . ." It was really looking at the music and it was really complimentary. It was a huge thing. Boy George
song writing acting
In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim.
song unique people
Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs. Boris Pasternak
song play rocks
No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us. Bon Scott
song writing wife
I was married at the time when I first joined the band and my wife said: 'Why don't you write a song about me ?' So I wrote 'She's got balls'. Then she divorced me.