Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 29

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• When you think that you lost everything you find out you can always lose a little more.

  Bob Dylan

  Thinking, Littles, Lost Everything

  Song: Tryin' to Get to Heaven

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• Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. Around any corner, there's a promise of something daring and ideal and things are just getting going. There's something obscenely joyful behind every door, either that or somebody crying with their head in in their hands. A lazy rhythm looms in the dreamy air and the atmosphere pulsates with bygone duels, past-life romance, comrades requesting comrades to aid them in some way. You can't see it, but you know it's there

  Bob Dylan

  Past, Night, Air

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• I've never gone for having a great voice, for cultivating one. I'm still not doing it now.

  Bob Dylan

  Voice, Gone, Stills

  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'm the oldest son of a crazy man, I'm in a cowboy band.

  Bob Dylan

  Crazy, Son, Cowboy

  Song: Nettie Moore, Album: Modern Times, 2006

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• I love Country Music but what happened to it?

  Bob Dylan

  Country, Country Love, Happened

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• People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.

  Bob Dylan

  Book, People, Dimes

  Song: Love Minus Zero, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965

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• Why wait any longer for the one you love When he’s standing in front of you

  Bob Dylan

  Waiting, One You Love, Standing

  Song: Lay, Lady, Lay

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• She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all.

  Bob Dylan

  Speak Softly, Knows

  Love Minus Zero/ No Limit (1965 song)

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• If my thought-dreams could be seen/ They'd probably put my head in a guillotine.

  Bob Dylan

  Dream, Guillotine, My Thoughts

  Song: It's Alright, Ma

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• Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount, But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts.

  Bob Dylan

  Nails, Matter, Deputies

  Song: Shelter From The Storm, 1975

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• Beauty walks a razors edge, someday I'll make it mine.

  Bob Dylan

  Razors, Someday, Walks

  Song: Shelter from the Storm, 1975

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• They're selling postcards of the hanging They're painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town Here comes the blind commissioner They've got him in a trance One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker The other is in his pants And the riot squad they're restless They need somewhere to go As Lady and I look out tonight From Desolation Row.

  Bob Dylan

  Hands, Squad, Needs

  Song: Desolation Row, Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

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• It's not dark yet But it's getting there

  Bob Dylan

  Dark

  Song: Not Dark Yet, 1997

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• I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken,
  I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children,
  And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
  It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

  Bob Dylan

  Children, Rain, Fall

  'A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall' (1963 song)

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• Rumble is the best instrumental ever.

  Bob Dylan

  Guitar, Rumble

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• I gotta friend who spends his life, stabbing my picture with a bowie knife. Dreams of strangling me with a scarf, when my name comes up he pretends to barf.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Dream, Knives

  Song: I Shall Be Free--No. 10

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• Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.

  Bob Dylan

  Enemy, Politics, Masters

  Song: Slow Train, Album: Slow Train Coming, 1979

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• There ought to be a law about you coming around.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Law, Ought

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• Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.

  Bob Dylan

  Politics, Lasts, Scoundrels

  Song: Sweetheart Like You, Album: Infidels, 1983

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• Sing your praise of progress and the doom machine, the naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen.

  Bob Dylan

  Progress, Naked, Machines

  Song: Dirge, Album: Planet Waves, 1974

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• God knows there's a heaven.

  Bob Dylan

  Profound, Heaven, God Knows

  Song: God Knows, Album: Under The Red Sky, 1990

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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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• Well the Lone Ranger and Tonto, they are riding down the line fixing everybody's troubles, everybody except mine.

  Bob Dylan

  Riding, Lines, Fixing

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• When the jelly faced women all sneeze, hear the one with the mustache say I can't find my knees.

  Bob Dylan

  Mustache, Jelly, Knees

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

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• I believe in you, even though I be outnumbered.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Believe, I Believe

  Song: I Believe in You, Album: Slow Train Coming, 1979

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