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Artists are not going to put somebody new in the president's chair. It's all worth the effort it all needs to be done. But I don't look at songwriting as having the ability to necessarily do that today.

Jakob Dylan

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Jakob Dylan
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 9
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New York City
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I liked getting the Grammy more than not getting it.
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There is trouble in my mind There is dark, there's dark and there is light There is no order, and there is chaos, and there is crime There is no one home tonight, in the empire of my mind
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I don't want to sing songs and write songs that need to have images behind them that are of a specific time. The times we live in today - I mean, there's a lot to work with. But I think that if I was my age in 1975 or 1985, I would have felt the same way because that's what I gravitate toward.
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Bob Dylan led me to this kind of music - and it's his and ours. And it's nobody else's.
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My father said it himself in an interview many years ago: 'Husband and wife failed, but mother and father didn't.' I've got a life that really matters to me, and that's because of the way I was raised. My ethics are high because my parents did a great job.
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Tolerance can lead to learning something.
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There's only one thing that's certainAnd that's everybody, everybody's hurting
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To us, there was Bob Dylan, and there was dad. As for what he meant to other people, that was never glorified in our house. There were no accolades there, no gold records.
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The trouble, dollIs not moving mountains, butDigging the ground that you're on
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I see myself as a traditionalist. I like traditional things. I like things of substance and value that have been proven. Conceptually, as the songs started to come together, I followed that lead, which is the language I work in.
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It doesn't always have a shape,Almost never does it have a name,It maybe has a pitchfork, maybe has a tail,But evil is alive and well.
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I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively... writing songs was king.
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You have to have a work ethic and you have to be educated in what you're doing. You have to take it seriously. It doesn't mean that everything you do has to be serious. But you've got to have the tools.
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I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit.
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I'm waiting for my kids to grow up and get into the Offspring and look at me like I'm a total candy-ass.
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I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively-and there were a lot of choices-writing songs was king.
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My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.
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