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Bob Dylan
“Folk songs are evasive — the truth about life, and life is more or less a lie, but then again that’s exactly the way we want it to be.” Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
William Shakespeare
“The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.” William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost
Bob Dylan
“Not only that, my style was too erratic and hard to pigeonhole for the radio, and songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality, some different...” Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
Bob Dylan
“I really was never any more than what I was — a folk musician who gazed into the gray mist with tear-blinded eyes and made up songs that floated in a luminous haze.” Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
Bob Dylan
“You just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs, especially if you’re a singer who has plenty of them and you’re learning more every day.” Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
Neil Gaiman
“The important thing about songs is that they’re just like stories. They don’t mean a damn unless there’s people listenin’ to them.” Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
Neil Gaiman
“People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don’t have their own song.” Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

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