"Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music."

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"Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music."

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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

Music, People, Ideas, Being

"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Music, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Life

"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

Music, Land, World

"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Music, Truth, Memory, Happiness

"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Music, Night, Snow, Rain

"A tapping foot isn't the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music."

Lisa Marie Presley, American Musician

Music, Life

"I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible."

Les Baxter, American Musician

Music, Song, Will

"I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off."

Frankie Valli, American Musician

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"I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong."

Past

"Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you."

Music

"Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me."

Harmony

"Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing."

Difficulty

"I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time."

Time

"I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way."

Contrast

"Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but when I'm playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert."

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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."

"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."

"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."

"A tapping foot isn't the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think."

"Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music."

"I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible."

"I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off."

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"I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong."

"Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you."

"Women hear rhythm differently than men."

"My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant."

"There's no such thing as an original sin."

"Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me."

"Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing."

"I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time."

"I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way."

"Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but when I'm playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert."