Chronicles Quotes

“You can write a song anywhere, in a railroad compartment, on a boat, on horseback — it helps to be moving. Sometimes people who have the greatest talent for writing songs never write any because they are not moving.”

― Bob Dylan, Chronicles

topic:writing

“You just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs, especially if you’re a singer who has plenty of them and you’re learning more every day.”

― Bob Dylan, Chronicles

topic:writing learning

“Dostoyevsky . . . wrote stories to ward off his creditors. Just like in the early '70s I wrote albums to ward off mine.”

― Bob Dylan, Chronicles

topic:work

“I wanted to read all these books, but I would have to have been in a rest home or something in order to do that.”

― Bob Dylan, Chronicles

topic:reading

“I really was never any more than what I was — a folk musician who gazed into the gray mist with tear-blinded eyes and made up songs that floated in a luminous haze.”

― Bob Dylan, Chronicles

topic:music

“James Joyce seemed like the most arrogant man who ever lived, had both his eyes wide open and great faculty of speech, but what he say, I knew not what.”

― Bob Dylan, Chronicles

topic:speech

“Things grow at night. My imagination is available to me at night. All my preconceptions of things go away. Sometimes you could be looking for heaven in the wrong places. Sometimes it could be under your feet. Or in your bed.”

― Bob Dylan, Chronicles

topic:imagination heaven

“I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.”

― Bob Dylan, Chronicles

topic:living feeling

“Morality has nothing in common with politics.”

― Bob Dylan, Chronicles

topic:politics morality

“I didn’t have any of these dreams or thoughts but I was going to acquire them.”

― Bob Dylan, Chronicles

topic:dreams

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