Jakob Dylan Quotes

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is.

The story behind every song is individual to itself.

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

I think you can't repeat beats. If you're doing something in one book, you can't do the exact same thing in another book.

I don't feel that all the great songs have been written. I do feel that where we are now, certainly with rock & roll music, is that so much of it is variations on themes. But I think that it's one's particular creativity and individuality that comes out within that variation on a particular theme that makes a song great.

I think all artists have a different story to tell, and no story is the same.

You're not gonna write a hundred songs and have a hundred entirely different ideas. It's a matter of finding the ones that are the freshest and most unique.

That's what's amazing about songwriting: you can write a story that everyone connects to.

I try not to write two songs about the same thing, although, on occasion, it happens, so I guess it kinda helps to change stuff up.

I don't believe in making two songs similar. Every composition must have its own unique character.

You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

For the longest time I didn't realize I was creative - I just thought I was strange.

I'm not a guy who likes cliches. I don't think that stereotypes and cliches are the end of the line, when it comes to a performance.

Of all the songs that I've written since I was 15 or 16, every song is different every song is special, it happens in a different way and I like that.

I thought that from the moment someone else could do the same as myself, there was no difference between the pictures and they should not be signed. Afterwards I realized it was not so and began to sign my pictures again. Picasso had begun again anyhow.

Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.

You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.

I couldn't say there is a formula to songwriting. Each time is a unique experience.