Bob Dylan Quotes

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And here I sit so patiently Waiting to find out what price You have to pay to get out of Going through all these things twice.

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We're living in a Machiavellian world, whether we like it or we don't.

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Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

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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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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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There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better.

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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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If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and good. Folk songs had taught me that.

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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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I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame And every time I pass that way I always hear my name

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Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

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The tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies, and the bright light of salvation shines in dark and empty skies.

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They asked me for some collateral and I pulled down my pants.

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Every cause that ever I fought, I fought it full without regret or shame.

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You'll find out when you reach the top, you're on the bottom.

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And for each unharmful gentle soul misplaced inside a jail...

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Now, each of us has his own special gift And you know this was meant to be true. And if you don't underestimate me I won't underestimate you.

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Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame.

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Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.

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I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

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They're selling postcards of the hanging They're painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town Here comes the blind commissioner They've got him in a trance One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker The other is in his pants And the riot squad they're restless They need somewhere to go As Lady and I look out tonight From Desolation Row.

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