Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 7

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to see all at once, like all the books in the library-everything laying around on all the tables. You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Book, Ideas

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game.

  Bob Dylan

  Land, Games, Justice

  Song: Hurricane, Album: Desire

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• If you like someone's work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to. Anyone who wants to be a songwriter should listen to as much folk music as they can, study the form and structure of stuff that has been around for 100 years.

  Bob Dylan

  Years, Important, Want

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

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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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• It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it's like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don't.

  Bob Dylan

  Inspiration, Writing, Giving

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• Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

  Bob Dylan

  Inspiration, Hard

  "Bob Dylan discusses his latest album 'Together Through Life'". The Monterey County Herald Interview, www.montereyherald.com. August 19, 2010.

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• I just don't hear anyone else making the music I'm making in my head, so I'll have to do it myself.

  Bob Dylan

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• The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have titles.

  Bob Dylan

  Real, Thinking, Hands

  "Bob Dylan discusses his latest album 'Together Through Life'". The Monterey County Herald Interview, www.montereyherald.com. August 19, 2010.

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• Having hits buries a singer in the past. A lot of singers hide in the past because it's safer back there. If you've ever heard today's country music, you'll know what I'm talking about.

  Bob Dylan

  Country, Past, Talking

  "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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• Done laid around, done stayed around
  This old town too long
  And it seems like I've got to travel on

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Long, Done

  Song: Gotta Travel On, Album: Self Portrait, 1970

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• I wouldn't even think of playing music if I was
  born in these times. I wouldn't even listen to the radio.

  Bob Dylan

  Thinking, Playing Music, Radio

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• Don't follow leaders.

  Bob Dylan

  Leader

  "Subterranean Homesick Blues" (song) (1965)

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• My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.

  Bob Dylan

  Education, Thinking, Noble

  Song: My Back Pages, Album: Another Side Of Bob Dylan

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• A cat's meow and cow's moo, I can recite them all.

  Bob Dylan

  Cat, Cows, Dense

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• ... we're living in a Machiavellian world, whether we like it or we don't.

  Bob Dylan

  Insanity, World

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

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• You have to look at every one of your songs and be able to identify with them in a meaningful way. You can hardly sing your songs unless you're in them. If you want to fake it, go ahead. Fake it if you want. But I'm not that kind of singer.

  Bob Dylan

  Meaningful, Song, Fake

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• I forgot more than you'll ever know.

  Bob Dylan

  Forgotten, Knows

  "Song: 'I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know'". 1953.

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• I never wanted to be a prophet or a saviour. Elvis maybe

  Bob Dylan

  Prophet, Wanted, Saviour

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