Bob Dylan Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.

  Bob Dylan

  Future, Past, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• The first thing you notice about New Orleans are the burying grounds - the cemeteries - and they're a cold proposition, one of the best things there are here. Going by, you try to be as quiet as possible, better to let them sleep. Greek, Roman, sepulchres- palatial mausoleums made to order, phantomesque, signs and symbols of hidden decay - ghosts of women and men who have sinned and who've died and are now living in tombs. The past doesn't pass away so quickly here. You could be dead for a long time

  Bob Dylan

  Sleep, Past, Men

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

• In 1975,Bob Dylan was almost 10 years past his prime - and then he released the best album of his career, Blood on the Tracks. Written and recorded amid a painful divorce, Blood on the Tracks is proof that heartbreak makes great art - just as many of the albums that followed were the opposite.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Divorce, Past

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

• Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

  Bob Dylan

  Past, People, Identity

  Bob Dylan (2004). “Chronicles: Volume One”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

• The future for me is already a thing of the past - You were my first love and you will be my last

  Bob Dylan

  Love, Past, Lasts

  Song: Bye and Bye

• Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind, Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves, The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach, Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow. Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands, With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, Let me forget about today until tomorrow.

  Bob Dylan

  Beach, Memories, Crazy

  "Mr. Tambourine Man" (song) (1964)

• You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.

  Bob Dylan

  Past, Should, Worst

  "Bob Dylan Loves Obama: “Redefining The Nature Of Politics”, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2008.

• The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The new order is Rapidly fadin'. And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin'.

  Bob Dylan

  Time, Past, Order

  Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

• Since my feet are now fast and point away from the past, I'll bid farewell and be down the line.

  Bob Dylan

  Farewell, Past, Feet

  Song: Restless Farewell, Album: The Times They Are A-Changin', 1964

• Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast

  Bob Dylan

  Heart, Past, Moon

  Song: If You See Her, Say Hello, 1975

• You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

  Bob Dylan

  Past, Way, Incredibles

  Bob Dylan (2008). “Tarantula”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

• Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. Around any corner, there's a promise of something daring and ideal and things are just getting going. There's something obscenely joyful behind every door, either that or somebody crying with their head in in their hands. A lazy rhythm looms in the dreamy air and the atmosphere pulsates with bygone duels, past-life romance, comrades requesting comrades to aid them in some way. You can't see it, but you know it's there

  Bob Dylan

  Past, Night, Air

• Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes you just want to do things your way, want to see for yourself what lies behind the misty curtain. It's not like you see songs approaching and invite them in. It's not that easy. You want to write songs that are bigger than life. You want to say something about strange things that have happened to you, strange things you have seen. You have to know and understand something and then go past the vernacular.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Lying, Writing

• Beyond here lies nothin' But the mountains of the past

  Bob Dylan

  Lying, Past, Mountain

  Song: Beyond Here Lies Nothin', Album: Together Through Life, 2009

• Having hits buries a singer in the past. A lot of singers hide in the past because it's safer back there. If you've ever heard today's country music, you'll know what I'm talking about.

  Bob Dylan

  Country, Past, Talking

  "Bob Dylan: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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