Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 10

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• You've got to lose your passion for dumbness.

  Bob Dylan

  Passion, Interesting, Dumbness

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• Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored

  Bob Dylan

  Bored, Trying, Want

  Song: Maggie's Farm

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• Everybody knows by now that there's a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the near future. So I'm encouraging anybody who's ever met me, heard me or even seen me, to get in on the action and scribble their own book. You never know, somebody might have a great book in them.

  Bob Dylan

  Book, Might, Action

  "Bob Dylan posts web message about China shows" by Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2011.

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• I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred.

  Bob Dylan

  Hate, Anger, Men

  Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• I was sick of the way my lyrics had been extrapolated, their meanings subverted into polemics and that I had been anointed as the Big Bubba of Rebellion, High Priest of Protest, the Duke of Disobedience, Leader of the Freeloaders, Kaiser of Apostasy, Archbishop of Anarchy, the Big Cheese. Horrible titles any way you want to look at it. All code words for Outlaw.

  Bob Dylan

  Sick, Leader, Want

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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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• He's hell bent for destruction, he's afraid and confused, and his brain has been mismanaged with great skill.

  Bob Dylan

  Confused, Skills, Evil

  Song: License to Kill, Album: Infidels, 1983

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• I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin'. When she said, hey man, you crazy or somethin'?

  Bob Dylan

  Crazy, Heart, Men

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• I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave

  Bob Dylan

  Communicate

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• There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.

  Bob Dylan

  One Day At A Time, Tonight, Today

  Bob Dylan (2004). “Chronicles: Volume One”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• The people in my songs are all me.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, People

  "Bob Dylan Sounds Off On The Origin Of His New Record, Parlor Music, Dr. Dre, And Who His Songs Are About". Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2009.

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• Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.

  Bob Dylan

  Journey, Nowhere To Turn, Limbo

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

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• Folk songs are evasive-the truth about life, and life is more or less a lie, but then again that's exactly the way we want it to be. We wouldn't be comfortable with it any other way. A folk song has over a thousand faces and you must meet them all if you want to play this stuff. A folk song might vary in meaning and it might not appear the same from one moment to the next. It depends on who's playing and who's listening.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Lying, Play

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands

  Bob Dylan

  Hands, Sea, Sky

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

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• I'm used to writing songs and songs-I can fill em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book (Chronicles, Vol. 1), you gotta tell the truth, and it can't be misinterpreted.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Book, Writing

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• The harmonica is the world's best-selling musical instrument. You're welcome.

  Bob Dylan

  Musical, World, Welcome

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

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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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• All right, I'll take a chance. I will fall in love with you. If i'm a fool you can have the night, you can have the morning too. Can you cook and sew. make flowers grow. Do you understand my pain? Are you willing to risk it all or is your love in vain?

  Bob Dylan

  Falling In Love, Morning, Pain

  Song: Is Your Love In Vain ?

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• I'll stand over your grave 'til I'm sure that you're dead.

  Bob Dylan

  Death, Over You, Graves

  Song: Masters Of War

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• If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

  Bob Dylan

  Thinking, Answers, Bob

  Bob Dylan (2005). “Bob Dylan: Inspirations”, p.34, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

  Bob Dylan

  Thinking, Poetic, Poet

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

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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?

  Bob Dylan

  Home, Ambition, Way

  "No Direction Home: Bob Dylan". Biography, Documentary, 2005.

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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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• I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

  Bob Dylan

  Music, Folks, Folk Music

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

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• What kind of alchemy could create a perfume that would make a reaction to a person lukewarm, indifferent and apathetic?If such a scent could be made I'd like some.

  Bob Dylan

  Scent, Kind, Reactions

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

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