"The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality."

-- Jon Landau

#Bob Quotes #Conflict Quotes #Immortality Quotes

“If you are happy, happiness will come to you because happiness wants to go where happiness is.”
“If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.”
“I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.”
“Having the security of being in a series week in, week out gives you great flexibility; you can experience with yourself, try a different scene different ways. If you make a mistake one week, you can look at it and say, 'Well, I won't do that again,' and you're still on the air next week.”
“I can't drink a wine if it has an ugly label,”
“Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.”
“Love songs come in many guises and are seemingly written for many reasons â€“ as declarations or to wound â€“ I have written songs for all of these reasons â€“ but ultimately the love songs exist to fill, with language, the silence between ourselves and God, to decrease the distance between the temporal and the divine.”
“We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.”

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