Bob Dylan Quotes

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

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

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Well the world of research is going berserk Too much paperwork

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

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

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

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If you like someone's work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to. Anyone who wants to be a songwriter should listen to as much folk music as they can, study the form and structure of stuff that has been around for 100 years.

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New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.

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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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You got a lot of nerve To say you are my friend When I was down You just stood there grinning.

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Last night I danced with a stranger, but she just reminded me you were the one.

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I find it easy to write songs. I been writing songs for a long time and the words to the songs aren't written out just for the paper; they're written as you can read it, you dig. If you take whatever there is to the song away—the beat, the melody—I could still recite it. I see nothing wrong with songs you can't do that with either—songs that, if you took the beat and the melody away, they wouldn't stand up because they're not supposed to do that, you know. Songs are songs.

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I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.

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Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

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