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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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You got a lot of nerve To say you are my friend When I was down You just stood there grinning.
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Last night I danced with a stranger, but she just reminded me you were the one.
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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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If you like someone's work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to. Anyone who wants to be a songwriter should listen to as much folk music as they can, study the form and structure of stuff that has been around for 100 years.
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There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better.
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I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.
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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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Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.
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You been down to the bottom with a bad man, babe But you're back were you belong
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You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody...
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They're selling postcards of the hanging They're painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town Here comes the blind commissioner They've got him in a trance One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker The other is in his pants And the riot squad they're restless They need somewhere to go As Lady and I look out tonight From Desolation Row.
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You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free
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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?
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Thinking of a series of dreams Where the time and the tempo fly And there's no exit in any direction 'Cept the one that you can't see with your eyes
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A song is anything that can walk by itself.
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Crimson flames tied through my ears rolling high and mighty traps, pounced with fire on flaming roads using ideas as my maps.
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To preach of peace and brotherhood, oh what might be the cost? A man he did it long ago, and they hung him on a cross.
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The ghosts race towards the light, you can almost hear the heavy breathing spirits, all determined to get somewhere. New Orleans, unlike a lot of places you go back to and that don't have the magic anymore, still has got it. Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. You can't see it, but you know it's here. Somebody's always sinking.
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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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I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.
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May 24, 1941
(age 82)
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Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, artist and writer. He has been influential in popular music and culture for more than five decades.
Known for:
Blonde on Blonde (1966)
Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
Blood on the Tracks (1975)
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963)
Desire (1976)
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