Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 11

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• I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself.

  Bob Dylan

  Believe, Voice, Smoking

  Bob Dylan (1995). “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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• your problem is that wanna better word for world

  Bob Dylan

  World, Problem

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• You're gonna have to serve somebody.

  Bob Dylan

  Followership

  Song: Gotta Serve Somebody

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• A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.

  Bob Dylan

  Breathing, People, Natural

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• We don't see the people that vice destroys. We just see the glamour of it - everywhere we look, from billboard signs to movies, to newspapers, to magazines. We see the destruction of human life.

  Bob Dylan

  People, Vices, Looks

  "Bob Dylan interview: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• Once I can focus in on something, I just play it in my mind until an idea comes from out of nowhere, and it's usually the key to the whole song. It's the idea that matters. It's like electricity was around long before Edison harnessed it.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Play, Ideas

  "Bob Dylan interview: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

  Bob Dylan

  Mainstream Culture, Sound, Looks

  "Bob Dylan Exclusive Interview: Reveals His Favorite Songwriters, Thoughts On His Own Cult Figure Status". Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2009.

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• My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

  Bob Dylan

  Fathers Day, Home, Wife

  Bob Dylan (2005). “Bob Dylan: Inspirations”, p.128, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• It goes back to the destiny thing.I made a bargain with it, you know, a long time ago. And I'm holding up my end.

  Bob Dylan

  Destiny, Long, Ends

  "Why Bob Dylan deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature" by Robert Chalmers, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 13, 2016.

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• Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think of myself as the one who carries the light bulb.

  Bob Dylan

  Thinking, Light, Ideas

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• 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.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Thinking, People

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• 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

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• Some things are too terrible to be true.

  Bob Dylan

  Terrible, Being True

  Song: Honest With Me, Album: Love And Theft, 2001

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• I dug it, New York City, all-the streets and the snows and the starving and the five-flight walkups and sleeping in rooms with ten people. I dug the trains and the shadows, the way I dug ore mines and coal mines. I just jumped right to the bottom of New York.

  Bob Dylan

  New York, Sleep, Cities

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• Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship. Ain't that just like my heart, babe. When you kissed my lips?

  Bob Dylan

  Heart, Looks, Ships

  Song: Meet Me In The Morning

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• After a while you earn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

  Bob Dylan

  Privacy, Sells

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• I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.

  Bob Dylan

  Cat, Cutting, Ears

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

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• The radio makes hideous sounds.

  Bob Dylan

  Sound, Radio, Hideous

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

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• We're living in times where men commit crimes and crime don't have a face.

  Bob Dylan

  Men, Order, Law

  Bob Dylan (2016). “The Lyrics: 1961-2012”, p.704, Gyldendal A/S

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• I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road.

  Bob Dylan

  Suicide, Hate, Loving You

  Song: Dirge, Album: Planet Waves, 1974

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• You'll find out when you reach the top, you're on the bottom.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Media, Entertainment

  Song: Idiot Wind, Album: Blood on the Tracks, 1975

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• In this ocean of hours I'm all the time drinking.

  Bob Dylan

  Drinking, Ocean, Hours

  Song: Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie

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• Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb/I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from/Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.

  Bob Dylan

  Prayer, Dark, Nerves

  "Song: "Not Dark Yet" ("Time Out of Mind")". 1997.

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• 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

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• I’m in awe of McCartney. He’s about the only one that I am in awe of. He can do it all. And he’s never let up... He’s just so damn effortless.

  Bob Dylan

  Damn, Awe, Effortless

  "Bob Dylan on Old America and 'Modern Times'". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.rollingstone.com. May 3, 2007.

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