Bob Dylan Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book.

  Bob Dylan

  Book, People, Looks

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.386, Simon and Schuster

• In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

  Bob Dylan

  Wall, Book, People

  Song: Love Minus Zero, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965

• Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.

  Bob Dylan

  Teacher, Book, Sea

  Song: Jokerman, Album: Infidels, 1983

• 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.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Book, Writing

• Everybody knows by now that there's a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the near future. So I'm encouraging anybody who's ever met me, heard me or even seen me, to get in on the action and scribble their own book. You never know, somebody might have a great book in them.

  Bob Dylan

  Book, Might, Action

  "Bob Dylan posts web message about China shows" by Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2011.

• With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books.

  Bob Dylan

  Book, Scott Fitzgerald, Crooks

  Song: Ballad of a Thin Man, Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

• People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.

  Bob Dylan

  Book, People, Dimes

  Song: Love Minus Zero, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965

• 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)

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Book, Eye

• In the dime stores and bus stations
 People talk of situations
 Read books, repeat quotations
 Draw conclusions on the wall
 Some speak of the future
 My love she speaks softly
 She knows there’s no success like failure
 And that failure’s no success at all -Bob Dylan, “Love Minus Zero / No Limit” (1965)

  Bob Dylan

  Zero, Wall, Book

  Love Minus Zero/ No Limit (1965 song)

• 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.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Book, Ideas

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

• You want to know about creativity? Just go out and buy that book Imagine by Jonah Lehrer. It's only $29.00 in hardcover.

  Bob Dylan

  Book, Creativity, Want

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