Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 12

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• Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.

  Bob Dylan

  Mind, Stories, Sticks

  "Only Human Driftin' And Learnin'" by Sidney Fields. New York Mirror, December 9, 1963.

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• Every step of the way we walk the line
  Your days are numbered, so are mine
  Time is pilin' up, we struggle and we scrape
  We're all boxed in, nowhere to escape

  Bob Dylan

  Time, Struggle, Lines

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.862, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Bob Dylan

  Moving, Dark, Rooms

  "Song: "Not Dark Yet" ("Time Out of Mind")". 1997.

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• Crimson flames tied through my ears Rollin' high and mighty traps Pounced with fire on flaming roads Using ideas as my maps "We'll meet on edges, soon," said I Proud 'neath heated brow. Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth "Rip down all hate," I screamed Lies that life is black and white Spoke from my skull. I dreamed Romantic facts of musketeers Foundationed deep, somehow. Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

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  Rip, Lying, Hate

  Song: My Back Pages

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• I'm used to writing songs and songs-I can fill em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book (Chronicles, Vol. 1), you gotta tell the truth, and it can't be misinterpreted.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Book, Writing

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• The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophy, Lying, Truth Is

  Song: Trouble in Mind

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• I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

  Bob Dylan

  Might, Solar System, Wells

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself.

  Bob Dylan

  Believe, Voice, Smoking

  Bob Dylan (1995). “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

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• What kind of alchemy could create a perfume that would make a reaction to a person lukewarm, indifferent and apathetic?If such a scent could be made I'd like some.

  Bob Dylan

  Scent, Kind, Reactions

  "Why Bob Dylan deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature" by Robert Chalmers, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 13, 2016.

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• I just try to understand that tomorrow is another day.

  Bob Dylan

  Trying, Another Day, Tomorrow

  Bob Dylan (1995). “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

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• I march in the parade of liberty But as long as I love you I’m not free How long must I suffer such abuse Won’t you let me see you smile one time before I turn you loose?

  Bob Dylan

  Love You, Long, Abuse

  Song: Abandoned Love, Album: Biograph

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• Well now what's the use in dreamin' You got better things to do Dreams never did work for me anyway Even when they did come true

  Bob Dylan

  Dream, Use, Wells

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.906, Simon and Schuster

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• The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money.

  Bob Dylan

  Milk And Honey, Land, Politics

  Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.778, Simon and Schuster

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• Gates appeal to me because of the negative space they allow. They can be closed but at the same time they allow the seasons and breezes to enter and flow. They can shut you out or shut you in. And in some ways there is no difference.

  Bob Dylan

  Space, Differences, Negative

  "Bob Dylan strikes heavy metal note with welded gates show" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2013.

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• He's hell bent for destruction, he's afraid and confused, and his brain has been mismanaged with great skill.

  Bob Dylan

  Confused, Skills, Evil

  Song: License to Kill, Album: Infidels, 1983

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• All right, I'll take a chance. I will fall in love with you. If i'm a fool you can have the night, you can have the morning too. Can you cook and sew. make flowers grow. Do you understand my pain? Are you willing to risk it all or is your love in vain?

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  Falling In Love, Morning, Pain

  Song: Is Your Love In Vain ?

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• Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.

  Bob Dylan

  Wall, War, Gun

  Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• You say love is just a four letter word.

  Bob Dylan

  Love, Four, Letters

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• I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

  Bob Dylan

  Thinking, Poetic, Poet

  Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave

  Bob Dylan

  Communicate

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• I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin'. When she said, hey man, you crazy or somethin'?

  Bob Dylan

  Crazy, Heart, Men

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• Even I don't know what I'm saying most of the time.

  Bob Dylan

  Knows

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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.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Lying, Play

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• It's mighty funny. The end of time has just begun.

  Bob Dylan

  Death, Ends, End Times

  Song: Can't Wait, Album: Time Out Of Mind, 1997

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• I'm looking for a woman who's head is mixed up like mine.

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  Quality, Mines

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