Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 29

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• You'll find God in the church of your choice, you'll find Woody Guthrie in the Brooklyn State Hospital.

  Bob Dylan

  Choices, Musical, Church

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

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• Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate, Gothic, Romanesque, Greek Revival standing in a long line in the rain. Roman Catholic art. Sweeping front porches, turrets, cast-iron balconies, colonnades- 30-foot columns, gloriously beautiful- double pitched roofs, all the architecture of the whole wide world and it doesn't move.

  Bob Dylan

  Beautiful, Art, Moving

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• Gold will never free your father, the price, my dear, is you instead.

  Bob Dylan

  Father, Social Taboos, Gold

  Song: Seven Curses

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• Wiggle 'til you're high, wiggle 'til you're higher, wiggle 'til you vomit fire.

  Bob Dylan

  Fire, Dancing, Higher

  Bob Dylan (2016). “The Lyrics: 1961-2012”, p.545, Simon and Schuster

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• Is your money that good, will it buy you forgiveness?

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophy, Good Will

  Song: Masters Of War, Album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, 1963

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• You walk into the room like a camel and then put your eyes in your pockets and your nose on the ground.

  Bob Dylan

  Eye, Animal, Pockets

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• A cork screw to my heart, ever since we've been apart.

  Bob Dylan

  Heart, Sadness, Screws

  Song: You're A Big Girl Now, Album: Blood on the Tracks, 1975

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• Crimson flames tied through my ears rolling high and mighty traps, pounced with fire on flaming roads using ideas as my maps.

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophy, Flames, Ideas

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• The rifleman's stalking the sick and the lame, preacherman seeks the same, who'll get there first is uncertain.

  Bob Dylan

  Reality, Sick, Lame

  Song: Jokerman, Album: Infidels, 1983

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• As he weeps to wicked birds of prey, who pick up on his bread crumb sins, and there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden.

  Bob Dylan

  Sadness, Eden, Bird

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

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• Lord knows I've paid my dues getting through, tangled up in blue.

  Bob Dylan

  Sadness, Blue, Tangled

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• God is in heaven, and we all want what's his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is.

  Bob Dylan

  Religious, Greed, Heaven

  Song: Blind Willie McTell

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• You say you're looking for someone who'll pick you up each time you fall, to gather flowers constantly and to come each time you call, a lover your life and nothing more. But it ain't me, babe.

  Bob Dylan

  Fall, Flower, Rejection

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

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• She took off her wheel, took off her bell, took off her wig, said, how do I smell? I hot footed it barenaked out the window.

  Bob Dylan

  Smell, Rejection, Hot

  Song: I Shall Be Free, Album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

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• Shakespeare, he's in the alley with his pointed shoes and his bells, speaking to some French girl who says she knows me well.

  Bob Dylan

  Girl, Shoes, Bells

  Song: Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again, Album: Blonde On Blonde, 1966

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• You use to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat, who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat.

  Bob Dylan

  Horse, Cat, Animal

  Song: Like A Rolling Stone

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• It will scramble your head and drag your brain about, sometimes you gotta do like Elvis did and shoot the damn thing out.

  Bob Dylan

  Brain, Sometimes, Drag

  Song: T.V. Talkin' Song, Album: Under The Red Sky, 1990

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• One was Texas medicine, the other was just railroad gin, and like a fool I mixed them.

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  Medicine, Texas, Alcohol

  Song: Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again, Album: Blonde On Blonde, 1966

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• Madonna, she still has not showed, we see this empty cage now corrode, where her cape of the stage once had flowed, the fiddler he now steps to the road, on the back of the fish truck that loads, while my conscience explodes.

  Bob Dylan

  Poetry, Capes, Cages

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

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• You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies. One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes.

  Bob Dylan

  Death, Hurt, Lying

  Song: Idiot Wind

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• If I had the stars from the darkest night and the diamonds from the deepest ocean, I'd forsake them all for your sweet kiss, for that's all I'm wishin' to be ownin'.

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  Romantic, Sweet, Stars

  Song: Boots of Spanish Leather, Album: The Times They Are A-Changin', 1964

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• How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?

  Bob Dylan

  Men, Hands, Politics

  Song: Hurricane, Album: Desire

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• Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship.

  Bob Dylan

  Magic, Ships, Outer Space

  Song: Mr. Tambourine Man

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• I was lookin' high an' low for them Reds everywhere, I was lookin' in the sink an' underneath the chair. I looked way up my chimney hole, I even looked deep inside my toilet bowl.

  Bob Dylan

  Way, Toilets, Politics

  Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books.

  Bob Dylan

  Book, Scott Fitzgerald, Crooks

  Song: Ballad of a Thin Man, Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

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