Bob Dylan Quotes

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One who sings with his tongue on fire, gargles in the rat race choir.

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The rifleman's stalking the sick and the lame, preacherman seeks the same, who'll get there first is uncertain.

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All the tired horses in the sun How'm I supposed to get any ridin' done? Hmm.

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The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through dust no matter how thick.

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You know, the streets are filled with vipers Who've lost all ray of hope You know, it ain't even safe no more In the palace of the Pope

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For them that must obey authority/That they do not respect in any degree/Who despise their jobs, their destinies/Speak jealously of them that are free

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Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth.
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.

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I once loved a girl, her skin it was bronze With the innocence of a lamb, she was gentle like a fawn I courted her proudly but now she is gone Gone as the season she's taken

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Too much of nothing can turn a man into a liar. It can cause one man to sleep on nails and another to eat fire.

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I was sick of the way my lyrics had been extrapolated, their meanings subverted into polemics and that I had been anointed as the Big Bubba of Rebellion, High Priest of Protest, the Duke of Disobedience, Leader of the Freeloaders, Kaiser of Apostasy, Archbishop of Anarchy, the Big Cheese. Horrible titles any way you want to look at it. All code words for Outlaw.

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Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes.

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You breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live, when I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give. Dried the tears up from my dreams and pulled me from my hole, quenched my thirst and satisfied the burning in my soul.

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Half of the people can be part right all of the time, Some of the people can be all right part of the time. I think Abraham Lincoln said that. 'I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours,' I said that.

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Shedding off one more layer of skin, Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within.

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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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How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?

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There's been rumors of war and wars that have been The meaning of life has been lost in the wind And some people thinkin' that the end is close by 'Stead of learnin' to live they are learnin' to die

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Madonna, she still has not showed, we see this empty cage now corrode, where her cape of the stage once had flowed, the fiddler he now steps to the road, on the back of the fish truck that loads, while my conscience explodes.

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Well I'm living in a foreign country but I'm bound to cross the line. Beauty walks a razor's edge...someday I'll make it mine.

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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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Satan will give you a little taste, then he'll move in with rapid speed.

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One was Texas medicine, the other was just railroad gin, and like a fool I mixed them.

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So happy just to be alive,
Underneath the sky of blue,
On this new morning, new morning,
On this new morning with you.

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God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free.

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Every day is the same thing out the door Feel further away then ever before Some things in life, it gets too late to learn Well, I'm lost somewhere I must have made a few bad turns

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Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate, Gothic, Romanesque, Greek Revival standing in a long line in the rain. Roman Catholic art. Sweeping front porches, turrets, cast-iron balconies, colonnades- 30-foot columns, gloriously beautiful- double pitched roofs, all the architecture of the whole wide world and it doesn't move.

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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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There doesn't seem to be any tomorrow. Every time I wake up, no matter in what position, it's always been today.

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I hurt easy, I just don't show it. You can hurt someone and not even know it.

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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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