Quote

Most songs have bridges in them, to distract listeners from the main verses of a song so they don't get bored. My songs don't have a lot of bridges because lyric poetry never had them.

Bob Dylan

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bob Dylan
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: May 24
Actor
Autobiographer
Composer
Designer
Disc Jockey
Film Actor
Film Director
Guitarist
Lyricist
Musician
Painter
Poet
Radio Personality
Duluth
USA
Bob Landy
Robert Milkwood Thomas
Tedham Porterhouse
Robert Zimmerman
Blind Boy Grunt
Robert Allen Zimmerman
Jack Frost
Elston Gunn
Lucky Wilbury
Boo Wilbury
Sergei Petrov
Robert Dylan
Dylan
Never
Listeners
Verses
Bridges
Bored
Main
Songs
Poetry
Lyric
Song
Distract

More quotes by Bob Dylan

Image
Mama, put my guns in the ground, I can't shoot them anymore. That long black cloud is coming down.
Bob Dylan
Image
I never saw myself as a folk singer.
Bob Dylan
Image
They kill people here who stand up for their rights The system's just too damned corrupt It's always the same, the name of the game Is who do you know higher up
Bob Dylan
Image
There used to be a time when the idea of heroes was important. People grew up sharing those myths and legends and ideals. Now they grow up sharing McDonalds and Disneyland.
Bob Dylan
Image
People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.
Bob Dylan
Image
Popular music had never had lyrical sophistication of this type [like Bob Dylan] wit, to be sure, but Darkness at the break of noon/Shadows even the silver spoon/The handmade blade, the child's balloon/Eclipses both the sun and moon/To understand you know too soon/ There is no sense in trying? No.
Bob Dylan
Image
Shakespeare's last play was called The Tempest. It wasn't called just plain Tempest. The name of my record is just plain Tempest. It's two different titles.
Bob Dylan
Image
Trying to create a next world war, he found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor, he said I never engaged in this kind of thing before, but yes I think it can be very easily done.
Bob Dylan
Image
I'm the oldest son of a crazy man, I'm in a cowboy band.
Bob Dylan
Image
There's been rumors of war and wars that have been The meaning of life has been lost in the wind And some people thinkin' that the end is close by 'Stead of learnin' to live they are learnin' to die
Bob Dylan
Image
He not busy being born is busy dying.
Bob Dylan
Image
The truth that I am seeking is in your missing file.
Bob Dylan
Image
The only person you have to think about lying twice to is either yourself or to God. The press isn't either of them. And I just figured they're irrelevant.
Bob Dylan
Image
I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.
Bob Dylan
Image
Advertising signs: they con you into thinking you're the one That can do what's never been done That can win what's never been won Meantime life outside goes on all around you
Bob Dylan
Image
Don't criticize what you can't understand.
Bob Dylan
Image
Is your money that good, will it buy you forgiveness?
Bob Dylan
Image
Dead man, dead man When will you arise? Cobwebs in your mind Dust upon your eyes
Bob Dylan
Image
How many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free.
Bob Dylan
Image
I come from way north. We'd listen to radio shows all the time. I think I was the last generation, or pretty close to the last one, that grew up without TV.
Bob Dylan