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
I can't see my reflection in the waters, I can't speak the sounds that show no pain. I can't hear the echo of my footsteps, or can't remember the sound of my own name.

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Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane.

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You say you're looking for someone who'll pick you up each time you fall, to gather flowers constantly and to come each time you call, a lover your life and nothing more. But it ain't me, babe.

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Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

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They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.

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He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich.

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Love is all there is, it makes the world go around. Love and only love, it can't be denied.

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He hands you a nickel, he hands you a dime. He asks you with a grin, if you're having a good time.

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Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.

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In another lifetime she must have owned the world, or been faithfully wed to some righteous king who wrote psalms beside moonlit streams.

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Well the world of research is going berserk Too much paperwork

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Fearing not that I'd become my enemy In the instant that I preach

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There's danger in this open world where men strive to be free, and to me the greatest danger was in society.

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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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I'll always thank the Lord when my working day is through, I get my sweet reward to be alone with you.

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They kill people here who stand up for their rights The system's just too damned corrupt It's always the same, the name of the game Is who do you know higher up

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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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You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing.

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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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I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade, into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way.

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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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When the jelly faced women all sneeze, hear the one with the mustache say I can't find my knees.

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Uncle fought in Vietnam and then he fought a war all by himself.

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In the home of the brave, Jefferson turning over in his grave.

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Trying to create a next world war, he found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor, he said I never engaged in this kind of thing before, but yes I think it can be very easily done.

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Well, the moral of the story, The moral of this song, Is simply that one should never be Where one does not belong. So when you see your neighbor carryin' somethin', Help him with his load, And don't go mistaking Paradise For that home across the road.

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Gold will never free your father, the price, my dear, is you instead.

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Shadows are falling and I've been here all day/It's too hot to sleep, time is running away/Feel like my soul has turned into steel/I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal

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City's just a jungle; more games to play Trapped in the heart of it, tryin' to get away I was raised in the country, I been workin' in the town I been in trouble ever since I set my suitcase down

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