You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it. Bob Dylan More Quotes by Bob Dylan More Quotes From Bob Dylan You're gonna have to serve somebody. Bob Dylan followership After a while you earn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back. Bob Dylan sells privacy All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die. Bob Dylan equality work death I need all kinds of songs - fast ones, slow ones, minor key, ballads, rumbas - and they all get juggled around during a live show. I've been trying for years to come up with songs that have the feeling of a Shakespearean drama, so I'm always starting with that. Bob Dylan song drama years It's not me, it's the songs. I'm just the postman, I deliver the songs. 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. 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. 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 busting-out running song Come senators, congressmen, Please heed the call, Don't stand in the doorway, Don't block up the hall, For he that gets hurt, Will be he who has stalled, The battle outside ragin', Will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls, For the times they are a-changin'... Bob Dylan wall block hurt I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do. Bob Dylan done men thinking I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged. Bob Dylan doe love america May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong, may you stay forever young. Bob Dylan strong forever may Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle. Bob Dylan rifles A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing. Bob Dylan breathing natural people Sometimes I'm thinkin' I'm Too high to fall Other times I'm thinkin' I'm So low I don't know If I can come up at all Bob Dylan lows sometimes fall There's not even room enough to be anywhere/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.../I was born here and I'll die here against my will/I know it looks like I'm moving, but I'm standing still. Bob Dylan dark rooms moving Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution. Bob Dylan too-much people way Let the dead bury the dead, your time will come. Bob Dylan death I make my stand and remain as I am, and bid farewell and not give a damn. Bob Dylan damn farewell giving I want to use songs that everybody knows or thinks they know. I want to show them a different side of it and open up that world in a more unique way. You have to believe what the words are saying and the words are as important as the melody. Unless you believe the song and have lived it, there's little sense in performing it. I never wanted to be a singer that Bob Dylan unique song believe [Bob] Dylan crashed his motorcycle in 1967, and almost died. A few years ago, he referred to the experience as a "transfiguration." Bob Dylan motorcycle bob years Technology is mechanical and contrary to the emotions that inform a person's life. The country music field has especially been hit hard by this. All my songs have been written by people who went out of fashion years ago. Just like da Vinci and Renoir and van Gogh. Nobody paints like that anymore. But it can't be wrong to try. Bob Dylan fashion song country My love is like some raven at my window with a broken wing. Bob Dylan ravens wings love-is
