I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.
BOB DYLANYou 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.
More Bob Dylan Quotes
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You get older. You start having hopes for other people rather than yourself.
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All the money you made will never buy back your soul.
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You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
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Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won’t invite what’s not there to begin with.
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Everything passes, Everything changes, Just do what you think you should do.
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He not busy being born is busy dying.
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I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
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My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.
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I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there’s some kind of change.
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You can’t be wise and in love at the same time.
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Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn’t work.
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A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
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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.
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Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it’s available. When the cost comes down, look out!
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Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king.
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