Bob Dylan Quotes

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I hurt easy, I just don't show it. You can hurt someone and not even know it.

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Old New York City is a friendly old town From Washington Heights to Harlem on down There's a-mighty many people all millin' all around They'll kick you when you're up and knock you when you're down It's hard times in the city Livin' down in New York town

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I thought that he was righteous, but he's vain. Oh, somethings a telling me I wear the ball and chain.

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The drunken politician leaps upon the street where mothers weep, and the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you.

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

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

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

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

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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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My love,she speaks like silence, without ideals or violence. She doesn't have to say she's faithful, yet she's true.

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The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.

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It's sundown on the Union and what's made in the USA, sure was a good idea, until greed got in the way.

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For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die? Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do.

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Since my feet are now fast and point away from the past, I'll bid farewell and be down the line.

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I see the turning of the page, curtain rising on a new age, see the groom still waiting at the altar.

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Disillusioned words like bullets bark as human gods aim for their mark.

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Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must.

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When you're sad and when you're lonely and you haven't got a friend, just remember that death is not the end.

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They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in, sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss banks.

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On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.

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Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan.

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He's hell bent for destruction, he's afraid and confused, and his brain has been mismanaged with great skill.

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Witchcraft scum exploiting the dumb turning children into punks and slaves.

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As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree, and the locusts sang off in the distance.

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