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• I was headed for the fantastic lights. No doubt about it. Could it be that I was being deceived? Not likely. I don't think I had enough imagination to be deceived; had no false hope, either. I'd come from a long ways off and had started from a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.

  Bob Dylan

  Destiny, Thinking, Light

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• You’re a cow
  Give me some milk
  Or else go home

  Bob Dylan

  Home, Giving, Milk

  Song: Ballad of a Thin Man, Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

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• How many roads must a man walk down, Before you call him a man? How many seas must a white dove sail, Before she sleeps in the sand? Yes, and how many times must the cannon balls fly, Before they're forever banned?

  Bob Dylan

  Sleep, Men, Sea

  Song: Blowing In The Wind

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• There's a whole lot of people in trouble tonight From the disease of conceit Whole lot of people seeing double tonight From the disease of conceit Give ya delusions of grandeur And a evil eye Give you the idea that You're too good to die Then they bury you from your head to your feet From the disease of conceit

  Bob Dylan

  Eye, Ideas, Feet

  Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.535, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation.

  Bob Dylan

  Talking, Generations

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

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• I ain't saying you treated me unkind you could've done better, but I don't mind. You just kinda wasted my precious time. But don't think twice, it's alright.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Thinking, Mind

  'Don't Think Twice, It's All Right' (1963 song)

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• It's always disappointing when people decide for one reason or another that they don't like your work anymore, but you can't try to please people, because then you're just going to be doing - you'll never live it down, y'know it'll always be dogging you around - you might be being a fake about the whole thing.

  Bob Dylan

  People, Fake, Trying

  Source: www.rightwingbob.com

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• Don't follow leaders, watch your parkin' meters.

  Bob Dylan

  Leader, Watches, Politics

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns... that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn't have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale... that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorientate myself. p.71

  Bob Dylan

  Believe, Creativity, Patterns

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

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• You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody.

  Bob Dylan

  Devil, May, Lord

  Song: Gotta Serve Somebody

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• How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.

  Bob Dylan

  Travel, Home, Rolling

  Song: Like A Rolling Stone

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• I'm good with songs I haven't written, if I like them. I'm glad I didn't write any of them. I already know how they go, so I have more freedom with them. I understand these songs. I've known them for 40 years, 50 years, maybe longer, and they make a lot of sense. So I'm not coming to them like a stranger.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Writing, Years

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• Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane.

  Bob Dylan

  Ideas, Insane, Driving

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• Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

  Bob Dylan

  Music, People, Fats

  Quoted in David Pickering Brewer's Twentieth Century Music (1994).

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• Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes you just want to do things your way, want to see for yourself what lies behind the misty curtain. It's not like you see songs approaching and invite them in. It's not that easy. You want to write songs that are bigger than life. You want to say something about strange things that have happened to you, strange things you have seen. You have to know and understand something and then go past the vernacular.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Lying, Writing

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• The hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying.

  Bob Dylan

  Play, Dying, Busy

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

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• I'm not a playwright. The people in my songs are all me.

  Bob Dylan

  Playwright

  "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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• Down the street the dogs are barking And the day is getting dark. As the night comes in a-falling, The dogs´ll lose their bark And the silent night will shatter From the sounds inside my mind, For I´m one to many mornings And a thousand miles behind. From the crossroads of my doorstep, My eyes they start to fade, As I turn my head back to the room Where my love and I have laid.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Dog, Morning

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• So now I'm going back again I got to get her somehow All the people we used to know They're an illusion to me now Some are mathematicians Some are carpenter's wives Don't know how it all got started I don't what they're doing with their lives But me I'm still on the road Heading for another joint We always did feel the same We just saw it from a different point of view Tangled up in Blue.

  Bob Dylan

  Blue, Views, Wife

  Song: Tangled Up in Blue

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• Pain sure does bring out the best in people, doesn't it?

  Bob Dylan

  Pain, Philosophy, People

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• I do know what my songs are about.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Knows

  Source: 18waits.com

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• My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Pages, Band

  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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• I used to think it's better if you just live and die and no one knows who you are.

  Bob Dylan

  Thinking, Used, Just Live

  Source: www.rightwingbob.com

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• A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.

  Bob Dylan

  Breathing, People, Driven

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

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• She makes love just like a woman.

  Bob Dylan

  Profound, Making Love

  Song: Just Like a Woman, Album: Blonde On Blonde, 1966

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