Jakob Dylan Quotes
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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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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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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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This kind of day Has no night Ain't got much on my mind Ain't got much on my mind 'Cause I know Something good this way comes.
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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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You might have a favorite band and really dislike one of the records. That's fine.
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Writing songs is a trade like anything else.
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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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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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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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Got my window open wide Got a good woman by my side I got a good woman by my side 'Cause I know Something good this way comes.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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We're off the script We're off the lease We can't catch any decent sleep We don't live here anymore
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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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I liked getting the Grammy more than not getting it.
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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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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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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.