Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 6

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• People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later, you have to see through it or you don't survive.

  Bob Dylan

  Ambition, People, Greed

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• Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind, Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves, The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach, Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow. Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands, With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, Let me forget about today until tomorrow.

  Bob Dylan

  Beach, Memories, Crazy

  "Mr. Tambourine Man" (song) (1964)

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• All the people we used to know, they're an illusion to me now.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, People, Illusion

  Song: Tangled Up in Blue

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• Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

  Bob Dylan

  Ambition, Order, Needs

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

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• There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They have got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.

  Bob Dylan

  Hurt, Black And White, Thinking

  Address to the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, December 13, 1963.

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• To live outside the law, you must be honest.

  Bob Dylan

  Truth, Honesty, School

  "Absolutely Sweet Marie" (song) (1966).

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• I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail, poisoned in the bushes,
  blown out on the trail; hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn,
  "Come in," she said, "I'll give ya shelter from the storm."

  Bob Dylan

  Marriage, Giving, Storm

  Song: Shelter From The Storm

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• Never make it perfect.

  Bob Dylan

  Perfect

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• There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them In this age of fiberglass I'm searching for a gem The crystal ball up on the wall hasn't shown me nothing yet I've paid the price of solitude, but at last I'm out of debt

  Bob Dylan

  Wall, Loneliness, Solitude

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.460, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, you always know who you are. I just don't know who I'm gonna become.

  Bob Dylan

  Wells, Knows, Who You Are

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• After a while you earn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

  Bob Dylan

  Privacy, Sells

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• It's very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself don't dig you.

  Bob Dylan

  People, Tire, Ifs

  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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• let me forget about today until tomorrow

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophy, Today, Tomorrow

  "Mr. Tambourine Man" (song) (1964)

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• I'm sittin' on my watch so I can be on time.

  Bob Dylan

  Time, Watches, I Can

  Song: Bye and Bye, 2001

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• Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, People, Laughing

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

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• The longer you live, the better you get.

  Bob Dylan

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

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• The times they are a-changing.

  Bob Dylan

  Time

  1964 Title of song.

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• Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.

  Bob Dylan

  Inspirational, Two, People

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• For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die? Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do.

  Bob Dylan

  Death, Baby, Forgive Me

  Song: Maybe Someday, Album: Knocked Out Loaded, 1986

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• Charity is suppose to cover up for a multitude of sins.

  Bob Dylan

  Cover Ups, Charity, Sin

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• Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.

  Bob Dylan

  Light, Bulbs, Light Bulb

  Bob Dylan, Barry Miles, Pearce Marchbank (1978). “Bob Dylan in his own words”, Music Sales Corp

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• In songs, you have to tell people about something they didn't see and weren't there for, and you have to do it as if you were.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, People, Ifs

  "Bob Dylan Unleashed". Interview with Mikal Gilmore, www.rollingstone.com. September 27, 2012.

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• Come mothers and fathers
  Throughout the land
  And don't criticize
  What you can't understand
  Your sons and your daughters
  Are beyond your command
  Your old road is
  Rapidly agin'
  Please get out of the new one
  If you can't lend your hand
  For the times they are a-changin'.

  Bob Dylan

  Daughter, Mother, Father

  The Times They Are A-Changing (1964 song)

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• Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

  Bob Dylan

  Music, Religious, Philosophy

  "Dylan Revisited" by David Gates, www.newsweek.com. October 5, 1997.

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• Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through.

  Bob Dylan

  Arrows, Truth Is, Adages

  Song: When He Returns, Album: Slow Train Coming, 1979

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