Bob Dylan Quotes

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From the fool's gold mouthpiece
The hollow horn plays wasted words
Proves to warn
That he not busy being born
Is busy dying.

Bob Dylan
Witchcraft scum exploiting the dumb turning children into punks and slaves.

Bob Dylan
I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you from me.

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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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Cop comes down the street crazy as a loon, he throws us in jail for carrying harpoons.

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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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Disillusioned words like bullets bark as human gods aim for their mark.

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I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

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She takes just like a woman, yes, she does
She makes love just like a woman, yes, she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks like a little girl.

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The road out would be treacherous, and I didn't know where it would lead but I followed it anyway. It was a strange world ahead that would unfold, a thunderhead of a world with jagged lightning edges. Many got it wrong and never did get it right. I went straight into it. It was wide open. One thing for sure, not only was it not run by God, but it wasn't run by the devil either.

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Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.

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Watch waterfalls of pity roar, you feel to moan but unlike before, you discover that you'd just be one more person crying.

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How does it feel
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

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My favorite politician was Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, who reminded me of Tom Mix, and there wasn't any way to explain that to anybody.

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You walk into the room like a camel and then put your eyes in your pockets and your nose on the ground.

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We are singing today of the WIPE-OUT GANG - the WIPE-OUT GANG buys, owns & operates the Insanity Factory - if you do not know where the Insanity Factory is located, you should hereby take two steps to the right, paint your teeth & go to sleep....

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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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But I can't think for you
You'll have to decide,
Whether Judas Iscariot
Had God on his side.

Bob Dylan
Old New York City is a friendly old town From Washington Heights to Harlem on down There's a-mighty many people all millin' all around They'll kick you when you're up and knock you when you're down It's hard times in the city Livin' down in New York town

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Don't follow leaders
And watch the parkin' meters.

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If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

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The first thing I know, I'm in a card game. Then I'm in a crap game.

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There's not even room enough to be anywhere/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.../I was born here and I'll die here against my will/I know it looks like I'm moving, but I'm standing still

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I've always been the kind of person that doesn't like to trespass, but sometimes you just find yourself over the line.

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Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed, dignity never been photographed.

Bob Dylan