Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 14

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• Whatever that ["transfiguration" by Bob Dylan] means, it's true that the poetic brilliance of the early career would never really reappear.

  Bob Dylan

  Mean, Careers, Bob

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I once loved a girl, her skin it was bronze With the innocence of a lamb, she was gentle like a fawn I courted her proudly but now she is gone Gone as the season she's taken

  Bob Dylan

  Girl, Taken, Skins

  Song: Ballad in Plain D, Album: Another Side of Bob Dylan, 1964

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• Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame.

  Bob Dylan

  Fire, Flames, Names

  Song: Ain’t No Man Righteous

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• The motorcycle black madonna Two wheeled gypsy queen.

  Bob Dylan

  Queens, Two, Black

  'Gates of Eden' (1965 song)

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• I need all kinds of songs - fast ones, slow ones, minor key, ballads, rumbas - and they all get juggled around during a live show. I've been trying for years to come up with songs that have the feeling of a Shakespearean drama, so I'm always starting with that.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Drama, Years

  "Bob Dylan: '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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• On the cliffs of your wild cat charms I'm riding.

  Bob Dylan

  Cat, Expression, Riding

  Song: Spanish Harlem Incident, Album: Another Side of Bob Dylan, 1964

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• To preach of peace and brotherhood, oh what might be the cost? A man he did it long ago, and they hung him on a cross.

  Bob Dylan

  Religious, Men, Long Ago

  Song: Long Ago, Far Away

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• Like the lion tears the flesh off a man, so can a woman who passes herself off as a male.

  Bob Dylan

  Men, Tears, Males

  Song: Foot of Pride

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• How many roads must a man walk down Before your can call him a man? . . . The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind.

  Bob Dylan

  Men, Wind, Answers

  1962 'Blowin' in the Wind'.

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• She had bullets in her eyes and they fired.

  Bob Dylan

  Romantic, Eye, Bullets

  Song: I Wanna Be Your Lover

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• In the home of the brave, Jefferson turning over in his grave.

  Bob Dylan

  Home, Brave, Politics

  Song: Slow Train, Album: Slow Train Coming, 1979

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• Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot Fighting in the captain's tower While calypso singers laugh at them And fishermen hold flowers.

  Bob Dylan

  Flower, Fighting, Sea

  'Desolation Row' (1965 song)

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• You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.

  Bob Dylan

  Past, Should, Worst

  "Bob Dylan Loves Obama: “Redefining The Nature Of Politics”, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2008.

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• There would be brilliant songs, but, as [Bob] Dylan admitted on the recent Martin Scorsese documentary about him (No Direction Home), the specific muse that inspired "It's Alright Ma" would not return.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Home, Would Be

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand.

  Bob Dylan

  Religious, Hands, Religion

  Song: Every Grain of Sand, Album: Shot of Love, 1981

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• There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better.

  Bob Dylan

  New Orleans

  Bob Dylan (2004). “Chronicles: Volume One”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth. You're an idiot babe, it's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Moving, Wind Blowing

  Song: Idiot Wind, Album: Blood on the Tracks, 1975

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• Your old road is rapidly aging. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand, For the times they are a-changin'.

  Bob Dylan

  Hands, Aging, Please

  The Times They Are A-Changing (1964 song)

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• It's hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

  Bob Dylan

  May, Tomorrow, Hard

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

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• In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

  Bob Dylan

  Wall, Book, People

  Song: Love Minus Zero, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965

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• Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

  Bob Dylan

  Ocean, Heart, Dark

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• Chaos is a friend of mine.

  Bob Dylan

  Chaos, Mines

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

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• Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

  Bob Dylan

  Poetry, Soul, Coal

  Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.480, Simon and Schuster

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• Disillusioned words like bullets bark as human gods aim for their mark.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Media, Entertainment

  Song: It's Alright, Ma, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965

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• If not for you, winter wouldn't hold no spring, couldn't hear a robin sing. I just wouldn't have a clue, if not for you.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Spring, Winter

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