Words matter. These are the best Jakob Dylan Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The back story of a songwriter isn’t important to me – I don’t listen to music needing to know who the guy is.
I’m a very upbeat, positive, optimistic type of person.
If I’m judged against my peers, rather than anyone else we could both think of, then I reckon I deserve to make records.
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.
Writing songs is a trade like anything else.
Those things interest me a lot in songwriting – the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.
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.
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.
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.
You might have a favorite band and really dislike one of the records. That’s fine.
My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them – I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.
It’s a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?
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.
Some people just can’t get over their own hang-ups to listen to my music.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You couldn’t really like a bad guitar in 1960 ’cause everybody was pretty good.
