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The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots. (Bob Dylan)
Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it. View quote
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What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing. View quote
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I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen. View quote
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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. View quote
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I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow. View quote
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I had ambitions to set out and find, like an odyssey or going home somewhere, set out to find this home that I'd left a while back and couldn't remember exactly where it was, but I was on my way there. And encountering what I encountered on the way was how I envisioned it all. I didn't really have any ambition at all. I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so, I'm on my way home, you know? View quote
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I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself. View quote
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A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing. View quote
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My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world. View quote
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Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language. (Bob Dylan)
Come you masters of warYou that build all the gunsYou that build the death planesYou that build the big bombsYou that hide behind wallsYou that hide behind desksI just want you to knowI can see through your masks. View quote
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Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way. View quote
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It's hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring. View quote
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I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own. View quote
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Folk music is a bunch of fat people. View quote
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I never saw myself as a folk singer. View quote
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I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work. View quote
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Nothing can affect my voice, it's so bad. View quote
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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. View quote
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The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs. (Bob Dylan)
Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola. View quote
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I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to. View quote
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It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people. View quote
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I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type. View quote
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