Latest Bob Dylan Quotes from Interviews

• America was founded on the backs of slaves.

  Bob Dylan

  Esclavo

  Fuente: aalbc.com

• An artist is always in the state of becoming.

  Bob Dylan

  Artista

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm gonna spare the defeated. I'm gonna tame the proud.

  Bob Dylan

  Proud, Defeated, Spares

  Source: projects.iq.harvard.edu

• I do know what my songs are about.

  Bob Dylan

  Canción, Sabe

  Source: 18waits.com

• The first thing I know, I'm in a card game. Then I'm in a crap game.

  Bob Dylan

  Games, Cards, Firsts

  Source: 18waits.com

• I lost my one true love. I started drinking.

  Bob Dylan

  Drinking, Lost, One True Love

  Source: 18waits.com

• There are things I could say. But I don't.

  Bob Dylan

  "Song: "Standing In The Doorway" ("Time Out of Mind")". 1997.

• You know, sometimes a person's reputation can be far more colossal than the influence of the person. I don't pay any attention to it anymore.

  Bob Dylan

  Attention, Pay, Reputation

  Fuente: www.npr.org

• I see the turning of the page, curtain rising on a new age, see the groom still waiting at the altar.

  Bob Dylan

  Waiting, Age, Rising

  "Song: "The Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar" ("Shot of Love")". 1981.

• Cada nervio de mi cuerpo está tan vacío y entumecido/Ni siquiera puedo recordar qué fue de lo que vine a escapar/Ni siquiera oigo el murmullo de una oración/Todavía no está oscuro, pero se está acercando.

  Bob Dylan

  Prayer, Dark, Nerves

  "Song: "Not Dark Yet" ("Time Out of Mind")". 1997.

• There's not even room enough to be anywhere/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.../I was born here and I'll die here against my will/I know it looks like I'm moving, but I'm standing still.

  Bob Dylan

  Moving, Dark, Rooms

  "Song: "Not Dark Yet" ("Time Out of Mind")". 1997.

• Bob Dylan was again an entirely new person - this time old, craggy, cynical, and world-weary, as in "Not Dark Yet".

  Bob Dylan

  Dark, Cynical, World

  Fuente: www.thedailybeast.com

• Shadows are falling and I've been here all day/It's too hot to sleep, time is running away/Feel like my soul has turned into steel/I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal.

  Bob Dylan

  Running, Fall, Sleep

  "Song: "Not Dark Yet" ("Time Out of Mind")". 1997.

• A brilliant 1989 album, Oh Mercy; some career retrospectives; and two albums of American folk songs, with just Bob Dylan and his guitar and harmonica. All that culminated in the Grammy-winning comeback album, Time Out of Mind (1997). Once again, just as Dylan seemed to be out of it, he was back at the top of his game.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Winning, Games

  Fuente: www.thedailybeast.com

• The confessional singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s was in full swing, and Bob Dylan's emotional album [ Blood on the Tracks] resonated with the times. There would be other hits, but never the same alchemy of emotion and time.

  Bob Dylan

  Emotional, Swings, Blood

  Fuente: www.thedailybeast.com

• Bob Dylan wrote in his elliptical memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, he was washed up in the 1980s, no longer a commercial success, and no longer putting out good work.

  Bob Dylan

  Bob, Good Work, Volume

  Fuente: www.thedailybeast.com

• "Tangled Up in Blue," shifts perspective several times during the song to tell a "tangled" version of [Bob] Dylan's marriage and dissolution.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Blue, Perspective

  Fuente: www.thedailybeast.com

• If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the Nobel Prize.

  Bob Dylan

  Would Be, Bob, Easy

  Fuente: www.thedailybeast.com

• [Bob] Dylan's broken-heart songs are so much better. Like "Simple Twist of Fate".

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Heart, Fate

  Fuente: www.thedailybeast.com

• After becoming famous once again - a 1976 song, "Hurricane," even marked a return to protest songwriting - [Bob] Dylan got addicted to drugs, found Jesus, left Jesus, and put out a lot of swill.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Jesus, Drug

  Fuente: www.thedailybeast.com

• The "joker" here ["All Along the Watchtower" ] is the older [Bob] Dylan himself, whining about exploitation, and the thief's rejoinder re-contextualizes the earlier critique into the religious frames that would become more prominent as time went on.

  Bob Dylan

  Religious, Thieves, Bob

  Fuente: www.thedailybeast.com

• In 1975,Bob Dylan was almost 10 years past his prime - and then he released the best album of his career, Blood on the Tracks. Written and recorded amid a painful divorce, Blood on the Tracks is proof that heartbreak makes great art - just as many of the albums that followed were the opposite.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Divorce, Past

  Fuente: www.thedailybeast.com

• The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan's hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of holy fools and righteous thieves - the kind of imagery that Dylan's later work would explore more fully.

  Bob Dylan

  Hipster, America, Thieves

  Fuente: www.thedailybeast.com

• Along with some of the worst music of Bob Dylan's career ("Self-Portrait," 1970), this period produced some gems - including many songs recorded with The Band in '67 but not released until years later.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Self, Years

  Fuente: www.thedailybeast.com

• Bob Dylan wasn't a big star early on; it was the release of his Greatest Hits album in 1967, and the mainstream success of the stoner anthem "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" ("Everybody must get stoned!"), that really put him on the mainstream map.

  Bob Dylan

  Stars, Rainy Day, Albums

  Fuente: www.thedailybeast.com

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