The Essential Interviews Quotes
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“Anything worth thinking about is worth singing about.”
― The Essential Interviews
― The Essential Interviews
“I’m happy to just be able to come across things. I don’t need to be happy. Happiness is a kind of cheap word. Let’s face it, I’m not the kind of cat that’s going to cut off an ear if I can’t do something. I would commit suicide. I would shoot myself in the brain if things got bad. I would jump from a window…you know, I can think about death openly. It’s nothing to fear. It’s nothing sacred. I’ve seen so many people die. Life’s not sacred either”
― The Essential Interviews
― The Essential Interviews
“Music is truthful… Music attracts the angels in the universe.”
― The Essential Interviews
― The Essential Interviews
“The only moments I have when I play that are worth anything to me are when I can blissfully ignore the people I am supposed to be entertaining. No me; no silly public to amuse; only the heart and the soul, the world, the birds, storms, dreams, sadness, heavenly serenity. Then I am an artist worthy of the name . . . . Until it happens, or if it doesn’t happen, I am miserable.”
― Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews
― Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews
“I was talking about pounding a nail in a board, it seems like there’s a board there and all the nails are pounded in all over the place, you know, and every new person that comes to pound in a nail finds that there’s one less space, you know. I hope we haven’t got to the end of the space yet.”
― Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews
― Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews