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• I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children.

  Bob Dylan

  Children, Future, Gun

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

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• When the deeds that you do don't add up to zero.

  Bob Dylan

  Zero, Expression, Add

  Song: Trouble in Mind

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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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• The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you've only got ten.

  Bob Dylan

  Men, Pigs, Expression

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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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• I love Country Music but what happened to it?

  Bob Dylan

  Country, Country Love, Happened

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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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• Inside the museum infinity goes up on trial. Voices echo, 'This is what salvation must be like after a while.' But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.

  Bob Dylan

  Echoes, Museums, Voice

  Song: Visions of Johanna

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• They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.

  Bob Dylan

  Work, Congratulations, Race

  Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.689, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The whole world's a bottle, And life's but a dram, When the bottle gets empty, It sure ain't worth a damn.

  Bob Dylan

  Life, Bottles, World

  Song: Moonshiner

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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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• 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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• 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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• There's eyes behind the mirrors in empty places.

  Bob Dylan

  Eye, Mirrors, Empty Places

  Song: Billy 1

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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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• How many times have you heard someone say If I had his money I'd do things my way Hmm, but little they know Hmm, it's so hard to find One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind.

  Bob Dylan

  Money, Men, Mind

  Song: A Satisfied Mind, Album: Saved, 1980

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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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• I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

  Bob Dylan

  Purpose, Chaos, Accepting

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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