Bob Dylan Quotes

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Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.

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Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame.

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Now, each of us has his own special gift And you know this was meant to be true. And if you don't underestimate me I won't underestimate you.

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And for each unharmful gentle soul misplaced inside a jail...

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You'll find out when you reach the top, you're on the bottom.

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Every cause that ever I fought, I fought it full without regret or shame.

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They asked me for some collateral and I pulled down my pants.

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The tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies, and the bright light of salvation shines in dark and empty skies.

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Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

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Shakespeare, he's in the alley with his pointed shoes and his bells, speaking to some French girl who says she knows me well.

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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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