Bob Dylan Quotes

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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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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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I said, you know they refused Jesus, too. He said, you're not him.

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I see through your brain like I see through the water that runs down the drain.

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There's a whole lot of people in trouble tonight From the disease of conceit Whole lot of people seeing double tonight From the disease of conceit Give ya delusions of grandeur And a evil eye Give you the idea that You're too good to die Then they bury you from your head to your feet From the disease of conceit

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I practice a faith that's been long abandoned Ain't no altars on this long and lonesome road

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I set my monkey on the log, and ordered him to do the Dog. He wagged his tail and shook his head, and he went and did the Cat instead.

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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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There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them In this age of fiberglass I'm searching for a gem The crystal ball up on the wall hasn't shown me nothing yet I've paid the price of solitude, but at last I'm out of debt

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Mama's in the factory, she ain't got no shoes. Daddy's in the alley, he's looking for food.

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Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

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

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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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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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Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.

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

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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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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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Aretha with no goals, eternally single & one step soft of heaven/ let it be understood that she owns this melody along with her emotional diplomats & her earth & her musical secrets

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Mama, put my guns in the ground, I can't shoot them anymore. That long black cloud is coming down.

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Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth. You're an idiot babe, it's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.

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Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you, but no, you will not be deceived. Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt, you can give but you cannot receive.

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Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.

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The only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row.

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