Bob Dylan Quotes

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When the jelly faced women all sneeze, hear the one with the mustache say I can't find my knees.

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Uncle fought in Vietnam and then he fought a war all by himself.

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In the home of the brave, Jefferson turning over in his grave.

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Trying to create a next world war, he found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor, he said I never engaged in this kind of thing before, but yes I think it can be very easily done.

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Well, the moral of the story, The moral of this song, Is simply that one should never be Where one does not belong. So when you see your neighbor carryin' somethin', Help him with his load, And don't go mistaking Paradise For that home across the road.

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You walk into the room like a camel and then put your eyes in your pockets and your nose on the ground.

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Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.

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Gold will never free your father, the price, my dear, is you instead.

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City's just a jungle; more games to play Trapped in the heart of it, tryin' to get away I was raised in the country, I been workin' in the town I been in trouble ever since I set my suitcase down

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Shadows are falling and I've been here all day/It's too hot to sleep, time is running away/Feel like my soul has turned into steel/I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal

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Cop comes down the street crazy as a loon, he throws us in jail for carrying harpoons.

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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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