Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 21

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• May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung. May you stay forever young.

  Bob Dylan

  Stars, Forever, Ladders

  Song: Forever Young, Album: Planet Waves, 1974

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• Abe said, where do you want this killing done? God said, out on highway 61.

  Bob Dylan

  Religious, Religion, Want

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• Money doesn't talk, it swears.

  Bob Dylan

  Funny, Money, Funny Money

  "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" (song) (1965)

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• Everything from toy guns that spark
  To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
  It's easy to see without looking too far
  That not much is really sacred.

  Bob Dylan

  Dark, Gun, Flesh

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

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• Bob Dylan wrote in his elliptical memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, he was washed up in the 1980s, no longer a commercial success, and no longer putting out good work.

  Bob Dylan

  Bob, Good Work, Volume

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.

  Bob Dylan

  Way, Mona Lisa, Highways

  Song: Visions of Johanna

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• 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.

  Bob Dylan

  Baseball, Football, Player

  Source: www.rightwingbob.com

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• [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.

  Bob Dylan

  Uncles, Children, Real

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Winning, Games

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I was never a topical songwriter.

  Bob Dylan

  Songwriters

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• I thought that he was righteous, but he's vain. Oh, somethings a telling me I wear the ball and chain.

  Bob Dylan

  Balls, Vain, Chains

  Song: Abandoned Love, Album: Biograph

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• 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.

  Bob Dylan

  Writing, Night, Play

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• Ah, current music. What would that be? Ah, really, a lot of it sounds defective to me. It makes me restless.

  Bob Dylan

  Sound, Restless, Currents

  Source: www.needsomefun.net

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• The tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies, and the bright light of salvation shines in dark and empty skies.

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophy, Dark, Light

  Song: Death is Not The End, Album: Down In The Groove, 1988

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• "Like a Rolling Stone" [of Bob Dylan] is a kiss-off song like none before or since.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Kissing, Rolling

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• ...don't criticize what you can't understand, your sons and your daughters are beyond your command.

  Bob Dylan

  Daughter, Son, Criticism

  The Times They Are A-Changing (1964 song)

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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

  Bob Dylan

  Country, Heart, Games

  Bob Dylan (2006). “Lyrics 1962-2001. Testo inglese a fronte”, p.1098, Feltrinelli Editore

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• I was lingering out on the pavement. There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him . . . I felt done for, an empty burned-out wreck . . . Wherever I am, I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows.

  Bob Dylan

  Rocks, Missing, Done

  Bob Dylan (2004). “Chronicles: Volume One”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• You don't have to be afraid of looking into my face. We've done nothing to each other that time will not erase.

  Bob Dylan

  Done, Faces, Erase

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.556, Simon and Schuster

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• Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things, but you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe.

  Bob Dylan

  Drinking, Princess, Thinking

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• How many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky? Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry? Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows That too many people have died? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind.

  Bob Dylan

  Men, Wind, Sky

  "Blowin' in the Wind" (song) (1962)

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• Bob Dylan wasn't a big star early on; it was the release of his Greatest Hits album in 1967, and the mainstream success of the stoner anthem "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" ("Everybody must get stoned!"), that really put him on the mainstream map.

  Bob Dylan

  Stars, Rainy Day, Albums

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Bob has never written a bad song. Bob Dylan is a genius.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Genius, Bob

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• If you ever tell anyone about Jonah's sexual dysfunction, I'll never play music again.

  Bob Dylan

  Play, Dysfunction, Jonah

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• I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

  Bob Dylan

  Real, People, Design

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