Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 31

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• It's like going out to the desert and screaming and then having little kids throw their sandbox at you. I'm only 24.

  Bob Dylan

  Kids, Desert, Going Out

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

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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 takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry

  Bob Dylan

  Laughing, Cry, Train

  Song: It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry

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• Last night I danced with a stranger, but she just reminded me you were the one.

  Bob Dylan

  Night, Lasts, Stranger

  Song: Standing In The Doorway, Album: Time Out of Mind, 1997

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• and if anybody asks me is it easy to forget I'll say it is easily done, you just pick anyone, and pretend that you never have met

  Bob Dylan

  Done, Forget, Easy

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• Dead man, dead man
  When will you arise?
  Cobwebs in your mind
  Dust upon your eyes

  Bob Dylan

  Death, Eye, Men

  Song: Dead Man, Dead Man, 1981

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• Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth.
  None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.

  Bob Dylan

  Wine, Earth, Lines

  Song: All Along The Watchtower, Album: John Wesley Harding, 1967

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• It may look like I'm moving but I'm standing still.

  Bob Dylan

  Moving, Looks, May

  Bob Dylan (2016). “The Lyrics: 1961-2012”, p.764, Gyldendal A/S

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• The answer is blowin' in the wind.

  Bob Dylan

  Wind, Answers

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

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• I just wanted a song to sing, and there came a point where I couldn't sing anything...nobo dy else was writing what I wanted to sing. I couldn't find it anywhere. If I could I probably would never have started writing.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Writing, Wanted

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• The ghosts race towards the light, you can almost hear the heavy breathing spirits, all determined to get somewhere. New Orleans, unlike a lot of places you go back to and that don't have the magic anymore, still has got it. Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. You can't see it, but you know it's here. Somebody's always sinking.

  Bob Dylan

  Night, New Orleans, Light

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• My songs are personal music, they're not communal. I wouldn't want people singing along with me. It would sound funny. I'm not playing campfire meetings. I don't remember anyone singing along with Elvis, Carl Perkins or Little Richard.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, People, Singing

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• But now we got weapons
  Of the chemical dust
  If fire them we're forced to
  Then fire them we must
  One push of the button
  And a shot the world wide
  And you never ask questions
  When God's on your side

  Bob Dylan

  Fire, Dust, Your Side

  Song: With God On Your Side

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• We never thought we could ever get old.

  Bob Dylan

  Song: Bob Dylan's Dream, Album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

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• Shakespeare's last play was called The Tempest. It wasn't called just plain Tempest. The name of my record is just plain Tempest. It's two different titles.

  Bob Dylan

  Play, Names, Two

  "Bob Dylan's Tempest: first listen" by Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2012.

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• How many a year has passed and gone and many gamble has been lost and won, and many a road taken by a friend and each one I've never seen again.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Taken, Years

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• The truth that I am seeking is in your missing file.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Missing, Files

  Song: Something's Burning, Baby, Album: Empire Burlesque, 1985

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• Ain't no use jiving, ain't no use joking, everything is broken.

  Bob Dylan

  Reality, Broken, Use

  Song: Everything is Broken, Album: Oh Mercy, 1989

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• Mama's in the factory, she ain't got no shoes. Daddy's in the alley, he's looking for food.

  Bob Dylan

  Reality, Shoes, Daddy

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.

  Bob Dylan

  Law, Politics, Fool

  Song: No Time to Think, Album: Street Legal, 1978

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• Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.

  Bob Dylan

  Forget, Adages, Left

  Song: It's All Over Now, Baby Blue, 1965

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• Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.

  Bob Dylan

  Hours, Adages, Late

  'All Along the Watchtower' (1968 song)

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• Satan will give you a little taste, then he'll move in with rapid speed.

  Bob Dylan

  Moving, Giving, Littles

  Song: Trouble in Mind

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