Bob Dylan Quotes

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Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane.

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You say you're looking for someone who'll pick you up each time you fall, to gather flowers constantly and to come each time you call, a lover your life and nothing more. But it ain't me, babe.

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Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

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They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.

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He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich.

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

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He hands you a nickel, he hands you a dime. He asks you with a grin, if you're having a good time.

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Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.

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In another lifetime she must have owned the world, or been faithfully wed to some righteous king who wrote psalms beside moonlit streams.

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Well the world of research is going berserk Too much paperwork

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Fearing not that I'd become my enemy In the instant that I preach

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There's danger in this open world where men strive to be free, and to me the greatest danger was in society.

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Oh, the inmates and the prisoners I found they were my kind And it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind But the jails they were too crowded Institutions overflowed So they turned me loose to walk upon Life's hurried tangled road

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I'll always thank the Lord when my working day is through, I get my sweet reward to be alone with you.

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They kill people here who stand up for their rights The system's just too damned corrupt It's always the same, the name of the game Is who do you know higher up

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I've always been the kind of person that doesn't like to trespass, but sometimes you just find yourself over the line.

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You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing.

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My favorite politician was Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, who reminded me of Tom Mix, and there wasn't any way to explain that to anybody.

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

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I can't see my reflection in the waters, I can't speak the sounds that show no pain. I can't hear the echo of my footsteps, or can't remember the sound of my own name.

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I said, you know they refused Jesus, too. He said, you're not him.

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I see through your brain like I see through the water that runs down the drain.

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There's a whole lot of people in trouble tonight From the disease of conceit Whole lot of people seeing double tonight From the disease of conceit Give ya delusions of grandeur And a evil eye Give you the idea that You're too good to die Then they bury you from your head to your feet From the disease of conceit

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I practice a faith that's been long abandoned Ain't no altars on this long and lonesome road

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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.

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Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.

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There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them In this age of fiberglass I'm searching for a gem The crystal ball up on the wall hasn't shown me nothing yet I've paid the price of solitude, but at last I'm out of debt

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Mama's in the factory, she ain't got no shoes. Daddy's in the alley, he's looking for food.

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Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

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Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed, dignity never been photographed.

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