Jakob Dylan Quotes

Tolerance can lead to learning something.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

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

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.

Its a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?

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

I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit.

I liked getting the Grammy more than not getting it.

There's only one thing that's certainAnd that's everybody, everybody's hurting

I do look at songwriting as a lot of work. I don't overintellectualize 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.

I'm realistic. Getting to everybody is not the goal here. The people you can affect in any way - that's who you want to get to.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Bob Dylan led me to this kind of music - and it's his and ours. And it's nobody else's.

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively... writing songs was king.

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