Quotes about song
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. Bob Dylan
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.
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.
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.