American - Musician | December 9, 1969 -
Writing songs is a trade like anything else.
Jakob Dylan
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Every song you write you think is the last one you're going to manage. You put everything you've got into the song, and you've twisted it and pulled at it and dug in and found a way to complete it. To get another one is the trick.
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Some people just can't get over their own hang-ups to listen to my music.
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I don't feel like I chose to do music as much as I made a decision to not stop doing music.
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I'm in an area where I want to make music that I'm thrilled with, but, you know, I do have to worry about putting food on the table. I'm in that position where I cannot always be gauging what things might become. I have to look ahead, because I'm cautious.
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If all you were left believing was what you were seeing, it'd be nothing but desperate. To have hope, you're going to have to imagine that there's something behind the curtain.
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I'm not somebody who carries around a notepad and writes songs all day long. I don't imagine everything I think of is worth being in a song. So I tend to collect notes, and I set time aside to go to work and write songs.
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There's only so many things to sing about, so what's going to make a song appeal to you more than someone else's is just a unique way of saying the same thing.
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When I listen back to my music and everyone else that's out there, I'm aware that there's something I can do that the next guy doesn't do.
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I'm a very upbeat, positive, optimistic type of person.
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It's been said that I formed The Wallflowers to hide my name but, really, I've always wanted to be in a band - right from the day my friends and I soundproofed a garage with bed-covers for our first rehearsal.
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If I'm judged against my peers, rather than anyone else we could both think of, then I reckon I deserve to make records.
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