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• Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them.

  Bob Dylan

  Want, Formulas, Complexes

  "Bob Dylan Exclusive Interview: Reveals His Favorite Songwriters, Thoughts On His Own Cult Figure Status". Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2009.

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• i been meek, and hard like an oak, i seen pretty people disappear like smoke. friends will arrive, friends will disappear. if you want me, honey baby, i'll be here.

  Bob Dylan

  Baby, People, Want

  Song: Buckets of Rain, Album: Blood on the Tracks, 1975

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• Really the truth is just a plain picture. A plain picture of, let's say, a tramp vomiting in the sewere. You know, and next door to the picture Mr. Rockefeller or Mr. C. W. Jones on the subway going to work. You know, any kind of picture. Just make a collage of pictures.

  Bob Dylan

  Artist, Doors, Vomiting

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• Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.

  Bob Dylan

  Wall, War, Gun

  Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• I just try to understand that tomorrow is another day.

  Bob Dylan

  Trying, Another Day, Tomorrow

  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 first thing you notice about New Orleans are the burying grounds - the cemeteries - and they're a cold proposition, one of the best things there are here. Going by, you try to be as quiet as possible, better to let them sleep. Greek, Roman, sepulchres- palatial mausoleums made to order, phantomesque, signs and symbols of hidden decay - ghosts of women and men who have sinned and who've died and are now living in tombs. The past doesn't pass away so quickly here. You could be dead for a long time

  Bob Dylan

  Sleep, Past, Men

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.

  Bob Dylan

  Titles, Way, Accolades

  "Bob Dylan Doesn't Accept Being The 'Voice Of His Generation'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. October 12, 2004.

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• Every cause that ever I fought, I fought it full without regret or shame.

  Bob Dylan

  Regret, Philosophy, Causes

  Song: Restless Farewell

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• Look out your window, and I'll be gone. You're the reason I'm a-traveling on.

  Bob Dylan

  Letting Go, Looks, Gone

  Song: Don't Think Twice, It's All Right, Album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, 1963

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• Somebody had to be Bob Dylan. I guess I was best equipped to do the job.

  Bob Dylan

  Jobs, Bob, Dylan

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• Her profession's her religion, her sin is lifelessness.

  Bob Dylan

  Work, Sin, Profession

  James Ensor, Bob Dylan (1999). “The Superhuman Crew”, p.38, Getty Publications

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• He hands you a nickel, he hands you a dime. He asks you with a grin, if you're having a good time.

  Bob Dylan

  Work, Hands, Dimes

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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• The one who is not being born is dying.

  Bob Dylan

  Dying, Born

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• Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise.

  Bob Dylan

  Wise, Passion, Men

  "Bob Dylan: The Uncut Interview". Interview with Robert Love, www.aarp.org. February, 2015.

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• It's not a house, it's a home.

  Bob Dylan

  Home, House

  Song: The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest, Album: John Wesley Harding, 1967

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• There's not even room enough to be anywhere/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.../I was born here and I'll die here against my will/I know it looks like I'm moving, but I'm standing still.

  Bob Dylan

  Moving, Dark, Rooms

  "Song: "Not Dark Yet" ("Time Out of Mind")". 1997.

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• Every brain is civilized, Every nerve is analyzed, Everything is criticized when you are in need.

  Bob Dylan

  Brain, Needs, Nerves

  Song: Unbelievable, Album: Under The Red Sky, 1990

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• I used to play hockey when I was growing up. Everyone sort of learns how to skate and play hockey at an early age.

  Bob Dylan

  Growing Up, Hockey, Play

  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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• Aretha with no goals, eternally single & one step soft of heaven/ let it be understood that she owns this melody along with her emotional diplomats & her earth & her musical secrets

  Bob Dylan

  Emotional, Goal, Heaven

  Bob Dylan (2008). “Tarantula”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, I sing by night, wander by day. I'm on the road and it looks like I'm here to stay.

  Bob Dylan

  Night, Looks, Wander

  Song: Endless Highway

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• God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free.

  Bob Dylan

  Religious, Men, Vanity

  Song: Ain't No Man Righteous

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• I march in the parade of liberty But as long as I love you I’m not free How long must I suffer such abuse Won’t you let me see you smile one time before I turn you loose?

  Bob Dylan

  Love You, Long, Abuse

  Song: Abandoned Love, Album: Biograph

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• When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.

  Bob Dylan

  Evil, Mud, Void

  Song: Shelter from the Storm

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• Shadows are falling and I've been here all day/It's too hot to sleep, time is running away/Feel like my soul has turned into steel/I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal.

  Bob Dylan

  Running, Fall, Sleep

  "Song: "Not Dark Yet" ("Time Out of Mind")". 1997.

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• I don't have the kinds of relationships that are built on any kind of false pretense, not to say that I haven't. I've had just as many as anybody else, but I haven't had them in a long time.

  Bob Dylan

  Long, Kind, Havens

  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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