Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 12

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• A lot of people from the press want to talk to me, but they never do.

  Bob Dylan

  People, Want, Talk To Me

  "Bob Dylan Not Like a Rolling Stone Interview". "Spin" Magazine Interview with Scott Cohen, www.interferenza.com. December 1985.

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• You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you.

  Bob Dylan

  Clown, Tricks, Jugglers

  Song: Like A Rolling Stone

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• If ever asked to look at yourself, don't.

  Bob Dylan

  Looks, Look At Yourself, Ifs

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• There's enough songs for people to listen to, if they want to listen to songs. For every man, woman and child on earth, they could be sent, probaby, each of them, a hundred records, and never be repeated. There's enough songs. Unless someone's gonna come along with a pure heart and has something to say. That's a different story.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Children, Writing

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• I practice a faith that's been long abandoned Ain't no altars on this long and lonesome road

  Bob Dylan

  Faith, Practice, Long

  Song: Ain't Talkin', Album: Modern Times, 2006

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• It's not me, it's the songs. I'm just the postman, I deliver the songs. 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. This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway. People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

  Bob Dylan

  Running, Song, Busting Out

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• I didn't know whether to duck or to run, so I ran.

  Bob Dylan

  Running, Ducks, Politics

  Song: Brownsville Girl, Album: Knocked Out Loaded, 1986

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• For them that must obey authority/That they do not respect in any degree/Who despise their jobs, their destinies/Speak jealously of them that are free

  Bob Dylan

  Jobs, Destiny, Degrees

  Song: It's Alright, Ma

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• Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

  Bob Dylan

  Wise, Men, Fool

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• I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

  Bob Dylan

  Musician, Writing Songs, Firsts

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

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• It's like my whole life never happened, When I see you, it's as if I never had a thought. I know this dream, it might be crazy, But it's the only one I've got.

  Bob Dylan

  Dream, Crazy, Might

  Song: Emotionally Yours, Album: Empire Burlesque, 1985

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• The Duke [John Wayne] was a massive figure. He looked like a heavy piece of hauled lumber, and it didn't seem like any man could stand shoulder to shoulder with him.

  Bob Dylan

  Men, Pieces, Dukes

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• I can't stand to see myself on television.

  Bob Dylan

  Television, I Can

  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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• My love is like some raven at my window with a broken wing.

  Bob Dylan

  Love Is, Wings, Ravens

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• I really don't like to hurt myself. I have a good understanding with all the women who have been in my life, whether I see them occasionally or not.

  Bob Dylan

  Hurt, Understanding, Good Understanding

  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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• Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

  Bob Dylan

  Way, Easy, Obvious

  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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• Technology is mechanical and contrary to the emotions that inform a person's life. The country music field has especially been hit hard by this. All my songs have been written by people who went out of fashion years ago. Just like da Vinci and Renoir and van Gogh. Nobody paints like that anymore. But it can't be wrong to try.

  Bob Dylan

  Country, Song, Fashion

  "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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• Rod's a great singer. He's got a great voice, but there's no point to put a 30-piece orchestra behind him. I'm not going to knock anybody's right to make a living but you can always tell if somebody's heart and soul is into something, and I didn't think Rod was into it in that way.

  Bob Dylan

  Heart, Thinking, Voice

  Interview with Robert Love, www.aarp.org. February, 2015.

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• [Bob] Dylan crashed his motorcycle in 1967, and almost died. A few years ago, he referred to the experience as a "transfiguration."

  Bob Dylan

  Years, Motorcycle, Bob

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• How many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free.

  Bob Dylan

  Freedom, Years, People

  'Blowin' in the Wind' (1962 song)

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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

  Cities, Mind, Mexico

  "Jack Kerouac" by Alison Behnke, (p. 100), 2007.

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• I find C major to be the key of strength, but also the key of regret. E major is the key of confidence. A-flat major is the key of renunciation.

  Bob Dylan

  Regret, Keys, Flats

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

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• That's another way of writing a song, of course. Just talking to somebody that ain't there. That's the best way. That's the truest way. Then it just becomes a question of how heroic your speech is. To me, it's something to strive after.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Writing, Talking

  Interview with Paul Zollo, americansongwriter.com. January 9, 2012.

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• Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall.

  Bob Dylan

  Block, Doorways, Politics

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• You say you've lost your faith
  But that's not where it's at
  You have no faith to lose and you know it

  Bob Dylan

  Honesty, Lost, Knows

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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