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Famous Bob Dylan Quotes
“You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live.”
“In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.”
Source: Performed Literature: Words and Music by Bob Dylan
“How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?”
“A song is anything that can walk by itself.”
Source: Bob Dylan in his own words
“I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.”
Source: The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career
“You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.”
Source: Chronicles
“I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.”
Source: The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career
“My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.”
“Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.”
Source: The Bob Dylan scrapbook: 1956-1966
“And I'll know my song well before I start singing”
Source: Performed Literature: Words and Music by Bob Dylan