Bob Dylan Quotes About Music

Quotes about: Music

• People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

  Bob Dylan

  Life, Break Up, Music

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• A song is anything that can walk by itself.

  Bob Dylan

  Music, Song, Walks

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

• 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.

  Bob Dylan

  Music, Religious, Philosophy

  "Dylan Revisited" by David Gates, www.newsweek.com. October 5, 1997.

• People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

  Bob Dylan

  Music, Ideas, People

  The Guardian, February 13, 1992.

• And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

  Bob Dylan

  Music, Ocean, Sinking

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

• 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

  Music, Running, Land

  Bob Dylan (1970). “Tarantula”

• He not busy being born is busy dying.

  Bob Dylan

  Life, Happy Birthday, Music

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

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

  Bob Dylan

  Music, Jesus, Fame

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

  Bob Dylan

  Music, People, Fats

  Quoted in David Pickering Brewer's Twentieth Century Music (1994).

• 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.

  Bob Dylan

  Music, Player, Thinking

• 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.

  Bob Dylan

  Music, Running, Spiritual

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

  Bob Dylan

  Music, Song, Woody

• ..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

  Bob Dylan

  Music, Jail, Busting Out

• When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.

  Bob Dylan

  Motivational, Music

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

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

  Bob Dylan

  Music, Folks, Folk Music

  Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

• 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

  Music, Drifting Off, Kind

  "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.

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