Bob Dylan Quotes

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Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon -but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx -the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

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Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

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Shedding off one more layer of skin, Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within.

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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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Everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It's easy to see without looking too far
That not much is really sacred.

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Well, I don't know, but I've been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!

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

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You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies. One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes.

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You'll find God in the church of your choice, you'll find Woody Guthrie in the Brooklyn State Hospital.

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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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I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows. I'm in the bottomless pit of cultural oblivion.

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It's like my whole life never happened, When I see you, it's as if I never had a thought. I know this dream, it might be crazy, But it's the only one I've got.

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They'll stone you when you're riding in your car.
They'll stone you when you're playing your guitar.
Yes, but I would not feel so all alone,
Everybody must get stoned.

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For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

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Take me for a trip upon your magic swirlin' ship, My senses have been stripped, My hands can't feel to grip, My toes too numb to step Wait only for my boot heels to be wanderin'.

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If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.

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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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How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

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People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book.

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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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How many years can some people exist
before they're allowed to be free...

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It's peculiar and unnerving in a way to see so many young people walking around with cellphones and iPods in their ears and so wrapped up in media and video games. It robs them of their self-identity. It's a shame to see them so tuned out to real life. Of course they are free to do that, as if that's got anything to do with freedom. The cost of liberty is high, and young people should understand that before they start spending their life with all those gadgets.

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Remember when you're out there trying to heal the sick, that you must always first forgive them.

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You know, the streets are filled with vipers Who've lost all ray of hope You know, it ain't even safe no more In the palace of the Pope

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