Bob Dylan Quotes

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Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.

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People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

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I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.

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So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away, to the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong.

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Something is happening here
But you don't know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?

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If I had wings and I could fly,
I know where I would go.
But right now I'll just sit here so contentedly
And watch the river flow.

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We may not be able to defeat these swine, but we don't have to join them.

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

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I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

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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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Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

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I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.

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

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Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)

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Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount, But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts.

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You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

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You say you've lost your faith
But that's not where it's at
You have no faith to lose and you know it

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Hey! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me.
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.

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Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks

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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

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There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.

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In ceremonies of the horsemen,
Even the pawn must hold a grudge.

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Democracy don't rule the world,
You'd better get that in your head;
This world is ruled by violence
But I guess that's better left unsaid.

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My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

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You don't need a weather man To know which way the wind blows

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And here I sit so patiently Waiting to find out what price You have to pay to get out of Going through all these things twice.

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We're living in a Machiavellian world, whether we like it or we don't.

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Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

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New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.

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Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

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