Bob Dylan Quotes
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I can picture the color of the song, or the shape of it, or who it is that I'm trying to appeal to, in the song, and what I'm trying to, almost, reinforce my feelings for. And I know that sounds sort of vague and abstract, but I've got a handle on it when I'm doing it.
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Fearing not that I'd become my enemy In the instant that I preach
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I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.
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We all like motorcycles to some degree.
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They can't hurt me. Sure, they can crush you and kill you. They can lay you out on 42nd and Broadway and put hoses on you and flush you in the sewers and put you on the subway and carry you out to Coney island and bury you on the Ferris wheel. But I refuse to sit here and worry about dying.
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How many roads must a developer walk down, before they accept the amenities package?
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God bless you all with peace, tranquility and good will.
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My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.
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"Subterranean Homesick Blues" [of Bob Dylan] captures, in word-salad format, life in an encroaching police state.
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One who sings with his tongue on fire, gargles in the rat race choir.
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Everybody knows by now that there's a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the near future. So I'm encouraging anybody who's ever met me, heard me or even seen me, to get in on the action and scribble their own book. You never know, somebody might have a great book in them.
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You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to be vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose. I don't have anything but darkness to lose.
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Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.
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Wasn't making any great connection Wasn't falling for any intricate scheme Nothing that would pass inspection Just thinking of a series of dreams
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I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
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and if anybody asks me is it easy to forget I'll say it is easily done, you just pick anyone, and pretend that you never have met
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A poem is a naked person.
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On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.
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A noble truth is a sacred creed.
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America was founded on the backs of slaves.
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Oh, the inmates and the prisoners I found they were my kind And it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind But the jails they were too crowded Institutions overflowed So they turned me loose to walk upon Life's hurried tangled road
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People do whatever they want to do, y'know.
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Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame.
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How many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free.
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You always got to be prepared but you never know for what.
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Warlords of sorrow and queens of tomorrow will offer their heads for a prayer. You can't find no salvation, you have no expectations anytime, anyplace, anywhere.
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Come senators, congressmen, Please heed the call, Don't stand in the doorway, Don't block up the hall, For he that gets hurt, Will be he who has stalled, The battle outside ragin', Will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls, For the times they are a-changin'...
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I have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known.
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It's always disappointing when people decide for one reason or another that they don't like your work anymore, but you can't try to please people, because then you're just going to be doing - you'll never live it down, y'know it'll always be dogging you around - you might be being a fake about the whole thing.
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The warrior who's strength is not to fight.
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