Jakob Dylan famous quotes

04-17-2025

Tolerance can lead to learning something.
-- Jakob Dylan

#Motivation #Inspiration #Tolerance
I liked getting the Grammy more than not getting it.
-- Jakob Dylan

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

#Song #Perseverance #Writing
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.
-- Jakob Dylan

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

#Thinking #Wind #People
I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively...writing songs was king
-- Jakob Dylan

#Song #Kings #Writing
There's only one thing that's certainAnd that's everybody, everybody's hurting
-- Jakob Dylan

#Hurt
The trouble, dollIs not moving mountains, butDigging the ground that you're on
-- Jakob Dylan

#Moving #Mountain #Trouble
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.
-- Jakob Dylan

#Names #Evil #Doe
I see myself as a traditionalist ... I like traditional things. I like things of substance and value that have been proven. Conceptually, as the songs started to come together, I followed that lead, which is the language I work in.
-- Jakob Dylan

#Song #Together #Substance
But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed.
-- Jakob Dylan

#Greed #Mazes #Opening
I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit.
-- Jakob Dylan

#Song #Writing #Looks
A guilty conscience means at least you have one.
-- Jakob Dylan

#Wisdom #Mean #Guilty Conscience
My father said it himself in an interview many years ago: 'Husband and wife failed, but mother and father didn't.' 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.
-- Jakob Dylan

#Mother #Jobs #Husband
Its a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?
-- Jakob Dylan

#Song #Mean #Thinking
Music is something I really have a need to do - I don't seem to be able to stop
-- Jakob Dylan

#Music #Needs #Able
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
-- Jakob Dylan

#Trust #Home #Dark

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