Bob Dylan Quotes

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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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It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain't got any friends.

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The only person you have to think about lying twice to is either yourself or to God. The press isn't either of them. And I just figured they're irrelevant.

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Loneliness Got a mind of its own The more people around The more you feel alone

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My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.

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Let me drink from the waters where the mountain streams flood Let the smell of wildflowers flow free through my blood Let me sleep in your meadows with the green grassy leaves Let me walk down the highway with my brother in peace Let me die in my footsteps Before I go down under the ground.

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

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