"If I made records for my own pleasure, I would only record Charley Patton songs."
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"And I'll know my song well before I start singing"
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"In the meantime [1965-67], [Bob] Dylan was again writing some of the best love songs in the genre, like "Visions of Johanna," "Just Like a Woman," and "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands.""
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"[Bob] Dylan's broken-heart songs are so much better. Like "Simple Twist of Fate"."
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"A brilliant 1989 album, Oh Mercy; some career retrospectives; and two albums of American folk songs, with just Bob Dylan and his guitar and harmonica. All that culminated in the Grammy-winning comeback album, Time Out of Mind (1997). Once again, just as Dylan seemed to be out of it, he was back at the top of his game."
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"Along with some of the worst music of Bob Dylan's career ("Self-Portrait," 1970), this period produced some gems - including many songs recorded with The Band in '67 but not released until years later."
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"Im Sorry was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings."
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"I dont think you ever get tired of the well-written, well-crafted songs."
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"There came a moment in the middle of the song when he suddenly felt every heartbeat in the room & after that he never forgot that he was part of something much bigger"
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"If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators."
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"The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind."
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"If I have a song that I feel is really one of my best songs, I like it to have a formal studio recording because I believe that something being officially released on a studio record gives it a certain authority that it doesn't quite have if it comes out on a live album or is just a part of your show, you know."
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"The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find."
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"I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people."
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"For me, once I count the band in, and I delve deep into my song, I feel a certain sort of integrity and integration that I rarely find in my daily life."
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"I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done."
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"A great singer has to learn how to inhabit a song."
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"I studied other singers, so I would learn how to phrase, and learn how to breathe. And the main thing was, I learned how to inhabit my song."
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"I think that, when you're writing your songs, there's always a debate about whether, is that you in the song? Is it not you in the song?"
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"Me and crazy Janey were making love in the dirt singing our birthday songs."
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