Bob Dylan Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

  Bob Dylan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

• You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Writing, Pages

• 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.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Children, Writing

• I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.

  Bob Dylan

  Country, Song, Writing

  Bob Dylan (1995). “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

• You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

  Bob Dylan

  Writing, Artist, People

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

• 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

• 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.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Writing, Long

• 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, Writing, Talking

  Interview with Paul Zollo, americansongwriter.com. January 9, 2012.

• In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.

  Bob Dylan

  Wise, Song, Writing

• You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Writing, One Day

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

• As long as you give my friend Jonah Lehrer a free pizza, I'll write a song about your restaurant.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Writing, Long

• 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."

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Best Love, Writing

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

• Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes you just want to do things your way, want to see for yourself what lies behind the misty curtain. It's not like you see songs approaching and invite them in. It's not that easy. You want to write songs that are bigger than life. You want to say something about strange things that have happened to you, strange things you have seen. You have to know and understand something and then go past the vernacular.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Lying, Writing

• If I could have any job in the world, I'd start out by writing a blog on Wired.com.

  Bob Dylan

  Jobs, Writing, World

• Just a reminder, if you tell anyone about what happened with Jonah last night, I'll destroy all of my writing and never play music again.

  Bob Dylan

  Writing, Night, Play

• 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.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Writing, Wanted

• I'm good with songs I haven't written, if I like them. I'm glad I didn't write any of them. I already know how they go, so I have more freedom with them. I understand these songs. I've known them for 40 years, 50 years, maybe longer, and they make a lot of sense. So I'm not coming to them like a stranger.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Writing, Years

• I don't write the songs; I just write 'em down.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Writing, Ems

• Once I went into songwriting, I figured I had to - I couldn't be a hellfire rock 'n' roller. But I could write hellfire lyrics.

  Bob Dylan

  Writing, Rocks, Songwriting

• It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it's like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don't.

  Bob Dylan

  Inspiration, Writing, Giving

• The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Writing, Knows

  "Bob Dylan Not Like a Rolling Stone Interview". "Spin" Magazine Interview with Scott Cohen, www.interferenza.com. December 1985.

• 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.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Writing, Enough

• I don't usually purge myself by writing anything about any type of quote, so-called, relationships.

  Bob Dylan

  Writing, Type

  Bob Dylan “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

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