{"quotes":[{"text":"I had no time for romance. I turned away from the window, from the wintry sun, crossed through the room, went to the stove and made and poured myself a cup of hot chocolate and then clicked on the radio.","author":"Bob Dylan","tags":["bob-dylan","romance"],"id":6915,"author_id":"Bob+Dylan"},{"text":"Everybody is waiting for cooler weather--and I am just waiting for you--. (Bob Dylan in a letter).","author":"Suze Rotolo","tags":["bob-dylan","waiting"],"id":16525,"author_id":"Suze+Rotolo"},{"text":"Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes you just want to do things your way, want to see for yourself what lies behind the misty curtain. It's not like you see songs approaching and invite them in. It's not that easy. You want to write songs that are bigger than life. You want to say something about strange things that have happened to you, strange things you have seen. You have to know and understand something and then go past the vernacular.","author":"Bob Dylan","tags":["autobiography","bob-dylan","lyrics","music","songwriting"],"id":58612,"author_id":"Bob+Dylan"},{"text":"Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, it was not even 'ahead' of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic as walking Christmas trees, constituting a genre unto itself: truly, a musical Monolith if ever there was one.","author":"Lester Bangs","tags":["60s","beatles","beefheart","bob-dylan","captain-beefheart","creativity","criticism","electronica","genius","hard-rock","music","originality","pop","rock","rock-criticism","rock-music","rolling-stones","trout-mask-replica"],"id":62825,"author_id":"Lester+Bangs"},{"text":"Why be bothered with other people's set-ups? It only leads to torture.","author":"Bob Dylan","tags":["1966","bob-dylan","poetry","prose","tarantula"],"id":90663,"author_id":"Bob+Dylan"},{"text":"Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, [Trout Mask Replica] was not even 'ahead' of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic as walking Christmas trees, constituting a genre unto itself: truly, a musical Monolith if ever there was one.","author":"Lester Bangs","tags":["beatles","beefheart","bob-dylan","creativity","genius","intelligence","rock","rock-criticism","rolling-stones","trout-mask-replica"],"id":124900,"author_id":"Lester+Bangs"},{"text":"It seemed I'd always been chasing after something, anything that moved -a car, a bird, a blowing leaf -anything that might lead me into some more lit place, some unknown land downriver. I had not even the vaguest notion of the broken world I was living in, what society could do with you.","author":"Bob Dylan","tags":["autobiography","bob-dylan","childhood","society"],"id":191546,"author_id":"Bob+Dylan"},{"text":"She's got everything she needs; she's an artist, she don't look back.","author":"Bob Dylan","tags":["bob-dylan","music","rock","songwriter","writer"],"id":216444,"author_id":"Bob+Dylan"},{"text":"Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.","author":"Bob Dylan","tags":["bob-dylan","fame"],"id":247651,"author_id":"Bob+Dylan"},{"text":"It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry.","author":"Bob Dylan","tags":["bob-dylan","quote"],"id":288244,"author_id":"Bob+Dylan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}