“I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to see all at once, like all the books in the library—everything laying around on all the tables. You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right.”

Bob Dylan

We all agree Bob Dylan knew the secrets of great songwriting. 

He gives them to us in four simple sentences. 

What are they?