Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 24

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• Everything's a business. Love, truth, beauty. Conversation is a business. Spirituality is not a business, so it's going to go against the grain of people who are trying to exploit other people.

  Bob Dylan

  People, Trying, Spirituality

  "Bob Dylan Not Like a Rolling Stone Interview". "Spin" Magazine Interview with Scott Cohen, www.interferenza.com. December 1985.

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• I'm gonna spare the defeated. I'm gonna tame the proud.

  Bob Dylan

  Proud, Defeated, Spares

  Source: projects.iq.harvard.edu

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• Most songs have bridges in them, to distract listeners from the main verses of a song so they don't get bored. My songs don't have a lot of bridges because lyric poetry never had them.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Lyric Poetry, Bridges

  "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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• Once you think you know the song, then you have go and see how other people have done it.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Thinking, People

  Interview with Robert Love, www.aarp.org. February, 2015.

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• Can you please crawl out your window? Use your arms and your legs, it won't ruin you

  Bob Dylan

  Use, Legs, Arms

  Bob Dylan (2016). “The Lyrics: 1961-2012”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• Old New York City is a friendly old town From Washington Heights to Harlem on down There's a-mighty many people all millin' all around They'll kick you when you're up and knock you when you're down It's hard times in the city Livin' down in New York town

  Bob Dylan

  New York, Hard Times, Cities

  Song: Hard Times in New York Town

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• The times are a-changing and if we don't we will sink like a stone.

  Bob Dylan

  Stones, Ifs

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• People are going to say, ‘Well, it’s not very truthful.’ But a songwriter doesn’t care about what’s truthful. What he cares about is what should’ve happened, what could’ve happened. That’s its own kind of truth. It’s like people who read Shakespeare plays, but they never see a Shakespeare play. I think they just use his name.

  Bob Dylan

  Thinking, Names, Play

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• What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

  Bob Dylan

  Sleep, Fans, Breakfast

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

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• You got men who can't hold peace and women who can't control their tongues. The rich seduce the poor, and the old seduce the young.

  Bob Dylan

  Reality, Men, Tongue

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• You travel the world, you go see different things. I like to see Shakespeare plays, so I'll go - I mean, even if it's in a different language. I don't care, I just like Shakespeare, you know. I've seen Othello and Hamlet and Merchant of Venice over the years, and some versions are better than others. Way better. It's like hearing a bad version of a song. But then somewhere else, somebody has a great version.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Mean, Years

  "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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• People do whatever they want to do, y'know.

  Bob Dylan

  People, Want, Knows

  Source: www.needsomefun.net

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• The "joker" here ["All Along the Watchtower" ] is the older [Bob] Dylan himself, whining about exploitation, and the thief's rejoinder re-contextualizes the earlier critique into the religious frames that would become more prominent as time went on.

  Bob Dylan

  Religious, Thieves, Bob

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• ...how many times must the cannon balls fly
  Before they're forever banned?

  Bob Dylan

  Peace, Forever, Balls

  Song: Blowin' In The Wind

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• I'd been going though his trash. He knocked me down. I was glad to see him, even though he was banging my head against the sidewalk. Afterwards these bums come over and say, 'Did he get much money?' I say, 'Money'? That was Bob Dylan.

  Bob Dylan

  Bob, Trash, Dylan

  "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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• Get jailed, jump bail, join the Army if you fail.

  Bob Dylan

  Army, Order, Law

  Song: Subterranean Homesick Blues, Album: Bringing It All Back Home, 1965

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• An artist has got to be constantly in a state of becoming.

  Bob Dylan

  Artist, Becoming, States

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• If you can't lend a hand, then get out of the way.

  Bob Dylan

  Compassion, Hands, Way

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• And I'll know my song well before I start singing

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Singing, Wells

  Betsy Bowden, Bob Dylan (2001). “Performed Literature: Words and Music by Bob Dylan”, University Press of Amer

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• Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.

  Bob Dylan

  Teacher, Book, Sea

  Song: Jokerman, Album: Infidels, 1983

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• Well, the moral of the story, The moral of this song, Is simply that one should never be Where one does not belong. So when you see your neighbor carryin' somethin', Help him with his load, And don't go mistaking Paradise For that home across the road.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Home, Doe

  Song: The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest, Album: John Wesley Harding

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• Well, my daddy, he didn't leave me much, you know he was a very simple man, but what he did tell me was this, he did say, son, he said, he say, you know it's possible to become so defiled in this world that your own father and mother will abandon you and if that happens, God will always believe in your ability to mend your ways.

  Bob Dylan

  Mother, Father, Believe

  Bob Dylan's acceptance speech for a lifetime achievement award at the Grammys, www.expectingrain.com. February 20, 1991.

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• Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan.

  Bob Dylan

  Politics, Someday, Plans

  Song: Maybe Someday, Album: Knocked Out Loaded, 1986

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• Everything in New Orleans is a good idea.

  Bob Dylan

  New Orleans, Ideas, Good Ideas

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

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• The executioner's face is always well hidden.

  Bob Dylan

  Expression, Faces, Executioners

  Song: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, Album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, 1963

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