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• In 1975,Bob Dylan was almost 10 years past his prime - and then he released the best album of his career, Blood on the Tracks. Written and recorded amid a painful divorce, Blood on the Tracks is proof that heartbreak makes great art - just as many of the albums that followed were the opposite.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Divorce, Past

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Once I can focus in on something, I just play it in my mind until an idea comes from out of nowhere, and it's usually the key to the whole song. It's the idea that matters. It's like electricity was around long before Edison harnessed it.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Play, 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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• It goes back to the destiny thing.I made a bargain with it, you know, a long time ago. And I'm holding up my end.

  Bob Dylan

  Destiny, Long, Ends

  "Why Bob Dylan deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature" by Robert Chalmers, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 13, 2016.

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• Whenever anybody does something in a big way, it's always rejected at home and accepted someplace else.

  Bob Dylan

  Home, Way, Doe

  Bob Dylan “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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• I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place.

  Bob Dylan

  Singers, Certain, Folks

  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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• The Rolling Stones are truly the greatest rock and roll band in the world and always will be. The last too. Everything that came after them, metal, rap, punk, new wave, pop-rock, you name it... you can trace it all back to the Rolling Stones. They were the first and the last and no one's ever done it better.

  Bob Dylan

  Rap, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 13, 2009.

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• The future for me is already a thing of the past - You were my first love and you will be my last

  Bob Dylan

  Love, Past, Lasts

  Song: Bye and Bye

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• You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Writing, Pages

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• You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grinin

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Being Happy, Nerves

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• My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Pages, Band

  Bob Dylan “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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• My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as long as it takes to write it...In writing songs I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie...It's not me, it's the songs. I'm just the postman, I deliver the songs...I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Writing, Long

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• They say everything can be replaced, Yet every distance is not near. So I remember every face Of every man who put me here. I see my light come shining From the west unto the east. Any day now, any day now, I shall be released.

  Bob Dylan

  Distance, Men, Light

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.419, Simon and Schuster

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• The one who is not being born is dying.

  Bob Dylan

  Dying, Born

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• The worth of things can't be measured by what they cost but by what the cost you to get it, that if anything costs you your faith or your family, then the price is too high, and that there are some things that will never wear out.

  Bob Dylan

  Cost, Ifs

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• And I hope that you die
  And your death'll come soon
  I will follow your casket
  In the pale afternoon
  And I'll watch while you're lowered
  Down to your deathbed
  And I'll stand o'er your grave
  'Til I'm sure that you're dead

  Bob Dylan

  Hatred, Watches, Afternoon

  Song: Masters of War

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• Let the dead bury the dead, your time will come.

  Bob Dylan

  Death

  Song: Foot of Pride

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• I made a bargain with him, the chief in a world we can't see. (devil)

  Bob Dylan

  Devil, World, Made

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• I play these [folk acoustic] concerts and I ask myself, 'Would you come see me tonight?' - and I'd have to answer truthfully, 'No, I wouldn't come. I'd rather be doin' something else, really I would. That something else is rock... The words are pictures, and the rock's gonna help me flesh out the colors of the pictures. (1965)

  Bob Dylan

  Play, Rocks, Color

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• The inmates and prisoners, I found they were my kind, and it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind.

  Bob Dylan

  Order, Law, Mind

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon -but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx -the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

  Bob Dylan

  Mean, Greatness, Looks

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• I never read Freud. I've never been attracted to anything he has said, and I think he's started a lot of nonsense with psychiatry and that business. I don't think psychiatry can help or has helped anybody. I think it's a big fraud (pun not intended) on the public.

  Bob Dylan

  Thinking, Helping, Nonsense

  Bob Dylan “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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• ..When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail

  Bob Dylan

  Music, Jail, Busting Out

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• I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

  Bob Dylan

  Clouds, Next, Moments

  Bob Dylan (2005). “Bob Dylan: Inspirations”, p.136, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The radio makes hideous sounds.

  Bob Dylan

  Sound, Radio, Hideous

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

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• I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.

  Bob Dylan

  Cat, Cutting, Ears

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

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