Bob Dylan
10 quotes
“Cosmo Listens to Records”
“I find it easy to write songs. I been writing songs for a long time and the words to the songs aren't written out just for the paper; they're written as you can read it, you dig. If you take whatever there is to the song away”
“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 Interview by Nora Ephron & Susan Edmiston”
“Then I asked this cat,”
“a poem is a naked person . . . some people say that I am a poet Liner notes , Bringing It All Back Home”
“Advice for Geraldine on Her Miscellaneous”
“I am a writer an a singer of the words I write I am no speaker nor any politician an my songs speak for me because I write them in the confinement of my own mind an have t cope with no one except my own self. Letter sent to the ECLC after Dylan received the Tom Paine Award at the Bill of Rights dinner on December 13, 1963, as reported in "Mr. Dylan Regrets" by Niall Stokes, Hot Press”
“There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They has got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt. Address to the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee”
“Only Human Driftin' And Learnin'”
“Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem. Liner notes , The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan”