Bob Dylan Quotes

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People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

Bob Dylan
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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Lay down the song you strum, And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum.

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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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Good and bad, I define these terms, quite clear, no doubt, somehow.

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Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored

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Satan will give you a little taste, then he'll move in with rapid speed.

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Well I'm living in a foreign country but I'm bound to cross the line. Beauty walks a razor's edge...someday I'll make it mine.

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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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I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

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Madonna, she still has not showed, we see this empty cage now corrode, where her cape of the stage once had flowed, the fiddler he now steps to the road, on the back of the fish truck that loads, while my conscience explodes.

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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 first two lines, which rhymed 'kiddin' you' and 'didn't you,' just about knocked me out, and later on, when I got to the jugglers and the chrome horse and the princess on the steeple, it all just about got to be too much.

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

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You know it balances on your head
Just like a mattress balances
On a bottle of wine
Your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat.

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May you have a strong foundation when the winds of change shift...and may you be forever young.

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Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content.

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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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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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