Bob Dylan quotes - page 24
![[Recounting a scene in The Gunfighter] Turn him loose, let him go, let him say he outdrew me fair and square - I want him to feel what it's like to every moment face his death. (Bob Dylan)](https://cdn.quotesdtb.com/img/quotes_images_webp/14/bob-dylan-death-face-517014.webp)
I began to think about William Shakespeare, the great literary figure. I would reckon he thought of himself as a dramatist. The thought that he was writing literature couldn't have entered his head. His words were written for the stage. Meant to be spoken not read. When he was writing Hamlet, I'm sure he was thinking about a lot of different things: "Who're the right actors for these roles?" "How should this be staged?" "Do I really want to set this in Denmark?" His creative vision and ambitions were no doubt at the forefront of his mind, but there were also more mundane matters to consider and deal with. "Is the financing in place?" "Are there enough good seats for my patrons?" "Where am I going to get a human skull?"
Bob Dylan
I was heading for the fantastic lights. No doubt about it. Could it be that I was being deceived? Not likely. I don't think I had enough imagination to be deceived; had no false hope, either. I'd come from a long ways off and had started from a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.
Bob Dylan
