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

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The rifleman's stalking the sick and the lame, preacherman seeks the same, who'll get there first is uncertain.

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Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder

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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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I've been sitting down studying the Art of Love. I think it will fit me like a glove.

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They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.

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She took off her wheel, took off her bell, took off her wig, said, how do I smell? I hot footed it barenaked out the window.

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I was lookin' high an' low for them Reds everywhere, I was lookin' in the sink an' underneath the chair. I looked way up my chimney hole, I even looked deep inside my toilet bowl.

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Situations have ended sad,
Relationships have all been bad.

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Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through.

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

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Sold my guitar to the baker's son for a few crumbs and a place to hide.

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The first thing I know, I'm in a card game. Then I'm in a crap game.

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I've never gone for having a great voice, for cultivating one. I'm still not doing it now.

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In harmony with cosmic sea, true love needs no company. It can cure the soul, it can make it whole, if dogs run free.

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Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up?

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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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Folk songs are evasive-the truth about life, and life is more or less a lie, but then again that's exactly the way we want it to be. We wouldn't be comfortable with it any other way. A folk song has over a thousand faces and you must meet them all if you want to play this stuff. A folk song might vary in meaning and it might not appear the same from one moment to the next. It depends on who's playing and who's listening.

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I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you from me.

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There's not even room enough to be anywhere/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.../I was born here and I'll die here against my will/I know it looks like I'm moving, but I'm standing still

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

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One who sings with his tongue on fire, gargles in the rat race choir.

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You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to be vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose. I don't have anything but darkness to lose.

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There's been rumors of war and wars that have been The meaning of life has been lost in the wind And some people thinkin' that the end is close by 'Stead of learnin' to live they are learnin' to die

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How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?

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