Bob Dylan Quotes

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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.

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

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

Bob Dylan
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.

Bob Dylan
Every day your memory grows dimmer - it doesn't haunt me like it did before.

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A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they got a lot of forks 'n knives. And they got to cut somethin'.

Bob Dylan
I march in the parade of liberty But as long as I love you I'm not free How long must I suffer such abuse Won't you let me see you smile one time before I turn you loose?

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Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

Bob Dylan
When you asked me how I was doing, was that some kind of joke

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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.

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

Bob Dylan
Well the world of research is going berserk Too much paperwork

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There are many here among us Who feel that life is but a joke

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Down the street the dogs are barking
And the day is getting dark.
As the night comes in a-falling,
The dogs'll lose their bark
And the silent night will shatter
From the sounds inside my mind,
For I'm one to many mornings
And a thousand miles behind.
From the crossroads of my doorstep,
My eyes they start to fade,
As I turn my head back to the room
Where my love and I have laid....

Bob Dylan
I had ambitions to set out and find, like an odyssey or going home somewhere… set out to find… this home that I'd left a while back and couldn't remember exactly where it was, but I was on my way there. And encountering what I encountered on the way was how I envisioned it all. I didn't really have any ambition at all. I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so, I'm on my way home, you know?

Bob Dylan
All right, I'll take a chance. I will fall in love with you. If i'm a fool you can have the night, you can have the morning too. Can you cook and sew. make flowers grow. Do you understand my pain? Are you willing to risk it all or is your love in vain?

Bob Dylan
Love is all there is, it makes the world go around. Love and only love, it can't be denied.

Bob Dylan
She knows there's no success like failure
And that failure's no success at all.

Bob Dylan
I'd come from a long ways off and had started from a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.

Bob Dylan
With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books.

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

Bob Dylan
I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade, into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way.

Bob Dylan
Señor, señor, do you know where we're headin'?
Lincoln County Road or Armageddon?

Bob Dylan
You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you.

Bob Dylan