Jakob Dylan Quotes

#1. Tolerance can lead to learning something.

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#2. I do look at songwriting as a lot of work. I don't over-intellectualize music as a special medium that only some people deserve to do. I think it's something you do if you put the work in.

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#3. If I'm judged against my peers, rather than anyone else we could both think of, then I reckon I deserve to make records.

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#4. If people want to talk about Bob Dylan, I can talk about that. But my dad belongs to me and four other people exclusively. I'm very protective of that. And telling people whether he was affectionate is telling people a lot. It has so little to do with me. I come up against a wall.

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#5. But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed.

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#6. 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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#7. You might have a favorite band and really dislike one of the records. That's fine.

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#8. I liked getting the Grammy more than not getting it.

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#9. Songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it and grind it out.

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#10. I don't feel like I chose to do music as much as I made a decision to not stop doing music.

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#11. The trouble, dollIs not moving mountains, butDigging the ground that you're on

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#12. Writing songs is a trade like anything else.

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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. I'm not somebody who carries around a notepad and writes songs all day long. I don't imagine everything I think of is worth being in a song. So I tend to collect notes, and I set time aside to go to work and write songs.

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#16. 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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#17. The back story of a songwriter isn't important to me - I don't listen to music needing to know who the guy is.

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#18. There's only one thing that's certainAnd that's everybody, everybody's hurting

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#19. I'm in an area where I want to make music that I'm thrilled with, but, you know, I do have to worry about putting food on the table. I'm in that position where I cannot always be gauging what things might become. I have to look ahead, because I'm cautious.

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#20. A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

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#21. 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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#22. It's been said that I formed The Wallflowers to hide my name but, really, I've always wanted to be in a band - right from the day my friends and I soundproofed a garage with bed-covers for our first rehearsal.

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#23. You couldn't really like a bad guitar in 1960 'cause everybody was pretty good.

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#24. When I listen back to my music and everyone else that's out there, I'm aware that there's something I can do that the next guy doesn't do.

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#25. Every song you write you think is the last one you're going to manage. You put everything you've got into the song, and you've twisted it and pulled at it and dug in and found a way to complete it. To get another one is the trick.

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#26. If all you were left believing was what you were seeing, it'd be nothing but desperate. To have hope, you're going to have to imagine that there's something behind the curtain.

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#27. It's a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?

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#28. 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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#29. I haven't changed, but I know I ain't the same.

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#30. Music is something I really have a need to do - I don't seem to be able to stop

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#31. 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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#32. I got to watch my heroes meet him and saw how they reacted, whether it was Joe Strummer or Tom Waits. It was peculiar. I'm so stoked to meet Tom Waits, and he's so nervous to meet my dad. It's a head spin.

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#33. We've all had that experience where we hear a song that we've liked for many years, and we finally hear what the writer tells us what it's about, and you're often disappointed.

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#34. 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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#35. Some people just can't get over their own hang-ups to listen to my music.

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#36. When you're in the middle of writing a song, you can come up with this whole web of stuff only you know how to get through. That's very entertaining for me to do that.

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#37. I'm a very upbeat, positive, optimistic type of person.

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#38. I don't like to sing things that just sound like they're going straight down the tubes, and they're circling the drain, and there's no hope. It doesn't feel good in any way to sing.

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#39. There's only so many things to sing about, so what's going to make a song appeal to you more than someone else's is just a unique way of saying the same thing.

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#40. 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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#41. Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.

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#42. I think there's always been hope in my songs, no matter how they've first appeared. I think there's always been a shred of hope in everything I've written 'cause I like that balance.

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#43. 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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