Bob Dylan Quotes

When I stop learning something new and start talking about the past versus the future, I will go.

I was talking to Alan Jackson. He had his second Greatest Hits album. He said, You don't ever get into this really thinking you're gonna make it.

Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again.

The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star.

My fame came from my success as a country music singer.

For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.

I don't see myself as a pop star, just a singer.

You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box, alongside Hans Zimmer.

I would never take part in one of those Eighties nostalgia tours, although I've been asked many times, because it's like admitting you have nothing new to offer. As long as I can keep making music I'm happy with, and people want to come to my gigs to hear it, I'll carry on.

I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.

I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.

The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I've gotten. I don't feel that I have lost any of my old fans, but I have gained new ones.

Who decides what is and what isn't punk? I want to write songs that people hear and feel, and I want to be successful and reach a big audience. I'm not trying to be the coolest guy in the world; I'm trying to write songs that mean something to people. As you get successful, sometimes you lose one set of fans and gain another.

It's interesting, because as a musician, I don't feel like I need to be on the top of the pop charts.

I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.

I had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things.

Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don't sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck.

I never forget the first time I was on 'Top of the Pops', my bass player said: 'You've made it!' I did used to think, when I was younger, that I'd be on there one day.

Most people remember me for a couple of tunes.

People say that I must get bothered when someone stops me for an autograph or a photo. I'll get bothered when no one asks me. Being asked means people haven't forgotten the time I played.

I feel like it's been so crazy to get to open for people like Rascal Flatts, Lady A, Billy Currington.

I had a couple of years in the mid-2000s where it was really confusing to me. I was like, 'Why is our band sometimes a punch line?'

I would hope somebody out there will still want to hear a Backstreet Boys song when I'm 50-something.

David Hasselhoff is awesome.

I still enjoy playing some of those early Straits songs, and I'm proud of what we did, and certainly we had some great times. It's what we all wanted when we were kids. But you've got to have the resilience to ride that thing, to pick up that ball and run with it. Because you will keep picking it up and keep running.