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. Jakob Dylan Read Quote
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. Jakob Dylan Read Quote
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. Jakob Dylan Read Quote
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. Jakob Dylan Read Quote
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. Jakob Dylan Read Quote
I don’t feel like I chose to do music as much as I made a decision to not stop doing music. Jakob Dylan Read Quote
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. Jakob Dylan Read Quote
My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them – I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity. Jakob Dylan Read Quote
If I’m judged against my peers, rather than anyone else we could both think of, then I reckon I deserve to make records. Jakob Dylan Read Quote
