Shedding off one more layer of skin, Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within.
[In 1951] we were also told that the Russians could be parachuting from planes over our town at any time. These were the same Russians that my uncles had fought alongside only a few years earlier. Now they had become monsters who were coming to slit our throats and incinerate us. It seemed peculiar. Living under a cloud of fear like this robs a child of his spirit. It's one thing to be afraid when someone's holding a shotgun on you, but it's another thing to be afraid of something that's just not quite real.
Fearing not that I'd become my enemy In the instant that I preach
Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid
We all like motorcycles to some degree.
Everybody's the first somebody, y'know.
A brilliant 1989 album, Oh Mercy; some career retrospectives; and two albums of American folk songs, with just Bob Dylan and his guitar and harmonica. All that culminated in the Grammy-winning comeback album, Time Out of Mind (1997). Once again, just as Dylan seemed to be out of it, he was back at the top of his game.
If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.
As long as you give my friend Jonah Lehrer a free pizza, I'll write a song about your restaurant.
Your eyes are like two jewels in the sky.
Suddenly I found you and the spirit in me sings, Don't have to look no further, You're the soul of many things.
You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore.
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
A noble truth is a sacred creed.
Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
I like the fans, but I don't feel an obligation that I have to be an example to them, like say maybe a baseball player would, or a football player or maybe some other type of musicians. I don't feel I have to really set an example that somebody else has to live up to.
The tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies, and the bright light of salvation shines in dark and empty skies.
I was never a topical songwriter.
Just a reminder, if you tell anyone about what happened with Jonah last night, I'll destroy all of my writing and never play music again.
I thought that he was righteous, but he's vain. Oh, somethings a telling me I wear the ball and chain.
Whenever anybody does something in a big way, it's always rejected at home and accepted someplace else.
Ah, current music. What would that be? Ah, really, a lot of it sounds defective to me. It makes me restless.
My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.
I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place.
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.
"America was founded on the backs of slaves."
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