Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 20

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• I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Sea, Political

  Bob Dylan “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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• You just have to keep going to find that thing that lets you in the door. Sometimes in life when that day comes and you're given the key, you throw it away.

  Bob Dylan

  Keys, Doors, Sometimes

  "Bob Dylan interview: '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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• Ironically, this was Bob Dylan's period [1967-74] of greatest fame.

  Bob Dylan

  Bob, Fame, Periods

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• When I was growing up - say in the fifties - the thirties to me didn't even exist. I couldn't even imagine them in any kind of way, so I don't expect anyone growing up now is gonna even understand what the sixties were all about, anymore than I could the thirties or twenties.

  Bob Dylan

  Growing Up, Twenties, Way

  Source: www.rightwingbob.com

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• We all like motorcycles to some degree.

  Bob Dylan

  Motorcycle, Degrees

  Bob Dylan (2005). “Bob Dylan: Inspirations”, p.76, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Everybody's the first somebody, y'know.

  Bob Dylan

  Firsts, Knows

  Source: www.needsomefun.net

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• I have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known.

  Bob Dylan

  People, Fame, Curse

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

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• Shedding off one more layer of skin, Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within.

  Bob Dylan

  Evil, Skins, Steps

  Song: Jokerman, Album: Infidels, 1983

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• People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

  Bob Dylan

  Music, Ideas, People

  The Guardian, February 13, 1992.

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• If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

  Bob Dylan

  Dying, Comfort, Busy

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• Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid

  Bob Dylan

  Kids, Years, Twenties

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• As long as you give my friend Jonah Lehrer a free pizza, I'll write a song about your restaurant.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Writing, Long

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• Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun.

  Bob Dylan

  Family, Mother, Children

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• Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)

  Bob Dylan

  Dad, Grateful, Bob

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• There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.

  Bob Dylan

  Religious, Eden, Religion

  Song: Gates of Eden, Album: Bringing It All Back Home, 1965

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• Suddenly I found you and the spirit in me sings, Don't have to look no further, You're the soul of many things.

  Bob Dylan

  Love, Romantic, Found You

  Song: Something There is About You, Album: Planet Waves, 1974

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• Watch waterfalls of pity roar, you feel to moan but unlike before, you discover that you'd just be one more person crying.

  Bob Dylan

  Sadness, Watches, Waterfalls

  Song: It's Alright, Ma, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965

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• I don't need your organization, I've moved your mountains and I've marked you cards, but Eden is burning. You better get ready for elimination or else your hearts must have the courage of the changing of the guard.

  Bob Dylan

  Religious, Heart, Eden

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• New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.

  Bob Dylan

  New York, Cities, Frozen

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• One who sings with his tongue on fire, gargles in the rat race choir.

  Bob Dylan

  Fire, Race, Rock And Roll

  Song: It's Alright, Ma, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965

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• Walkin' through the leaves fallin' from the trees, Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees.

  Bob Dylan

  Tree, Stranger

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• Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Media, Entertainment

  Song: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

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• If God is on our side, he'll stop the next war.

  Bob Dylan

  War, Politics, Next

  Song: With God On Your Side, Album: The Times They Are A-Changin', 1964

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• I bargained for salvation and they gave me a lethal dose.

  Bob Dylan

  Religious, Religion, Salvation

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• Everything that I'm saying You can say it just as good

  Bob Dylan

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