Jakob Dylan Quotes

I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of good songwriters, and I try to actually work on the craft of writing a song rather than just leaving it up to inspiration.

I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

I've always been into writing love songs.

To write is human, to edit is divine.

I would always write lyrics and songs on the piano.

As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.

Songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it and grind it out.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

I love writing for dancers. You don't have to worry about the lyrics. I think to write words without music must be so frustrating. It must be always be so good, so perfect.

I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.

I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.

The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

I love telling a story through song. It helps me take it to a deeper place.

If I weren't musical, then I would have just published a book, you know? But I'm lucky enough to play piano, and so I use piano to convert my poems.

I don't think words always lead to meaning, but the things you can create with them are still pretty amazing. I've been really into Joni Mitchell, for example, but I've also been into some studio stuff, like Bjork.

It's not just music. To me, it's songwriting more than anything. A lot of people say it's expression, but to me, it's more than that.

I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.

As a songwriter, I go into the studio, and I just try to write a great song.

I love clever lyrics.

I got books full of music.