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• The picture you have in your mind of what you're about will come true.

  Bob Dylan

  Mind

  Bob Dylan, Robert Santelli (2005). “The Bob Dylan scrapbook: 1956-1966”, Egully.com

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• Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

  Bob Dylan

  Music, Jesus, Fame

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

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• Your mind is a your temple, keep it beautiful and free. Don't let an egg get laid in it by something you can't see.

  Bob Dylan

  Beautiful, Education, Eggs

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

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• The purpose of music is to elevate the spirit and inspire. Not to help push some product down your throat. It puts you in tune with your own existence. Sometimes you really don't know how you feel, but really good music can define how you feel... someone who's telling me where he's been that I haven't and what it's like there - somebody whose life I can feel.

  Bob Dylan

  Inspire, Tunes, Purpose

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• People are crazy and times are strange ... I used to care but things have changed

  Bob Dylan

  Crazy, People, Care

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• An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you'll sort of be alright.

  Bob Dylan

  Artist, Thinking, Long

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• You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

  Bob Dylan

  Writing, Artist, People

  Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on

  Bob Dylan

  Song: Tangled Up In Blue

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• You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way.

  Bob Dylan

  Way

  Song: Mississippi, Album: Love And Theft

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• Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.

  Bob Dylan

  Inspiration, Creativity, Ideas

  "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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• Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up?

  Bob Dylan

  School, Church, Politics

  Song: When You Gonna Wake Up ?, Album: Slow Train Coming

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• You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right, now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself, you decide for yourself.

  Bob Dylan

  Jobs, Mean, Years

  "I pity the poor journalist" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2004.

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• DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about WILL COME TRUE. It's a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it's a fragile feeling, and you put it out there, then someone will kill it. It's best to keep that all inside.

  Bob Dylan

  Destiny, Self, Feelings

  Bob Dylan, Robert Santelli (2005). “The Bob Dylan scrapbook: 1956-1966”, Egully.com

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• There are things I could say. But I don't.

  Bob Dylan

  "Song: "Standing In The Doorway" ("Time Out of Mind")". 1997.

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• Dealing with my own life takes priority over other people dealing with my life.

  Bob Dylan

  People, Priorities, My Own

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

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• I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

  Bob Dylan

  Beauty, Patriotism, Should

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

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• It's not important what other people call you. If you yourself know you're a fake, that's tougher to live with.

  Bob Dylan

  People, Fake, Important

  Source: www.rightwingbob.com

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• A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.

  Bob Dylan

  Self, People, This Life

  "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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• I kinda live where I find myself.

  Bob Dylan

  Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

  Bob Dylan

  Freedom, Hippie, I Hate You

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• They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.

  Bob Dylan

  Life, Kings, Jail

  Bob Dylan (2017). “Lyrics 1961 - 2012: Nouvelle édition augmentée”, p.349, Fayard

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• I fought with my twin, the enemy within.

  Bob Dylan

  Insanity, Enemy, Twins

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• I've always been the kind of person that doesn't like to trespass, but sometimes you just find yourself over the line.

  Bob Dylan

  Finding Yourself, Lines, Kind

  Song: Brownsville Girl, Album: Knocked Out Loaded

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• I don't really have a retirement plan.

  Bob Dylan

  Retirement, Plans

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• There's a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it.

  Bob Dylan

  Wall, Desire, Want

  Song: The Groom's Still Waiting at The Altar, 1981

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