Bob Dylan quotes - page 18

Like Shakespeare, I too am often occupied with the pursuit of my creative endeavors and dealing with all aspects of life's mundane matters. "Who are the best musicians for these songs?" "Am I recording in the right studio?" "Is this song in the right key?" Some things never change, even in 400 years. Not once have I ever had the time to ask myself, "Are my songs literature?" So, I do thank the Swedish Academy, both for taking the time to consider that very question, and, ultimately, for providing such a wonderful answer. (Bob Dylan)
I think what I need might be a full-length leather coat Somebody just asked me If I registered to vote. View quote
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How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man? How many seas must a white dove sail before she sleeps in the sand? View quote
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Oh all the money that in my whole life I did spend Be it mine right or wrongfully I let it slip gladly past the hands of my friends To tie up the time most forcefully. View quote
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And the National Bank at a profit sells road maps for the soul To the old folks home and the college. View quote
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Sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace. View quote
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Far between sundown's finish an' midnight's broken toll, We ducked inside the doorway, thunder crashing. As majestic bells of bolts struck shadows in the sounds, Seeming to be the chimes of freedom flashing. Flashing for the warriors whose strength is not to fight, Flashing for the refugees on the unarmed road of flight, An' for each an' ev'ry underdog soldier in the night, An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing. View quote
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I paid the price of solitude but at least I'm out of debt. View quote
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I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows. I'm in the bottomless pit of cultural oblivion. View quote
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The one was Texas medicine. the other was just railroad gin. And, like a fool, I mixed them and it strangled up my mind and now people just get uglier and I have no sense of time. View quote
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When I first heard Elvis's voice I just knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody and nobody was going to be my boss. He is the deity supreme of rock and roll religion as it exists in today's form. Hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail. I think for a long time that freedom to me was Elvis singing 'Blue Moon of Kentucky. (Bob Dylan)
I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of. View quote
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You lose yourself, you reappear You suddenly find you got nothing to fear Alone you stand with nobody near When a trembling distant voice, unclear Startles your sleeping ear to hear That somebody thinks they really found you. View quote
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She left one too many a boy behind He committed suicide. View quote
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Drownin' in the poison, got not future got no past. View quote
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The ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming. View quote
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I had to say something to strike him very weird so I yelled out "I like Fidel Castro and his beard." View quote
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Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail, The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder, That the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breeze Leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder Striking for the gentle, striking for the kind, Striking for the guardians and protectors of the mind, An' the poet and the painter far behind his rightful time An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing. View quote
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I helped her out of a jam, I guess, but I used a little too much force... View quote
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I had been in a motorcycle accident and I'd been hurt, but I recovered. Truth was that I wanted to get out of the rat race. Having children changed my life and segregated me from just about everybody and everything that was going on. Outside of my family, nothing held any real interest for me and I was seeing everything through different glasses. View quote
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It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe If you don't know by now. (Bob Dylan)
They say in your father's house there's many mansions; each one of 'em got a fireproof floor. View quote
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They tell you "Time is money," as if your life was worth its weight in gold. View quote
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I've been deceived by the clown inside of me. I thought that he was righteous but he's vain. View quote
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I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it. View quote
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