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• I'm a good friend of Jonah Lehrer's. You should go on a date with him.

  Bob Dylan

  Good Friend, Goes On, Should

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• I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

  Bob Dylan

  Real, People, Design

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• Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon -but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx -the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

  Bob Dylan

  Mean, Greatness, Looks

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• Every writer at the New Yorker is smarter than me.

  Bob Dylan

  Smarter, New Yorkers

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• People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young. Back then I guess most of my influences could be thought of as eccentric. Mass media had no overwhelming reach so I was drawn to the traveling performers passing through.

  Bob Dylan

  Emotional, Media, People

  "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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• Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Media, Bed

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• The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handle

  Bob Dylan

  Pumps, Causes, Handle

  Song: Subterranean Homesick Blues, Album: Bringing It All Back Home, 1965

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• The woman I love she got a prize fighter nose, cauliflower ears and a run in her hose.

  Bob Dylan

  Running, Quality, Noses

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• The government's not going to create jobs. It doesn't have to. People have to create jobs.

  Bob Dylan

  Jobs, Government, People

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

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• Nothing can affect my voice, it's so bad.

  Bob Dylan

  Voice

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• If I could have any job in the world, I'd start out by writing a blog on Wired.com.

  Bob Dylan

  Jobs, Writing, World

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• And I hope that you die
  And your death'll come soon
  I will follow your casket
  In the pale afternoon
  And I'll watch while you're lowered
  Down to your deathbed
  And I'll stand o'er your grave
  'Til I'm sure that you're dead

  Bob Dylan

  Hatred, Watches, Afternoon

  Song: Masters of War

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• The first thing I know, I'm in a card game. Then I'm in a crap game.

  Bob Dylan

  Games, Cards, Firsts

  Source: 18waits.com

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• I don't usually purge myself by writing anything about any type of quote, so-called, relationships.

  Bob Dylan

  Writing, Type

  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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• Popular music had never had lyrical sophistication of this type [like Bob Dylan]; wit, to be sure, but "Darkness at the break of noon/Shadows even the silver spoon/The handmade blade, the child's balloon/Eclipses both the sun and moon/To understand you know too soon/ There is no sense in trying"? No.

  Bob Dylan

  Children, Moon, Darkness

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I'm a liberal to a degree, I want everybody to be free. But if you think that I'll let Barry Goldwater move in next door.

  Bob Dylan

  Moving, Thinking, Doors

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• Ain't nothing too discreet about the disease of conceit.

  Bob Dylan

  Disease, Conceit, Egotism

  Song: Disease of Conceit, Album: Oh Mercy, 1989

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• So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away, to the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong.

  Bob Dylan

  Country, Hate, Cutting

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.516, Simon and Schuster

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• Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features.

  Bob Dylan

  Compliment, Features

  Song: Jokerman, Album: Infidels, 1983

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• I lost my one true love. I started drinking.

  Bob Dylan

  Drinking, Lost, One True Love

  Source: 18waits.com

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• She takes your voice and leaves you howling at the moon.

  Bob Dylan

  Moon, Voice, Compliment

  Song: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

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• The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Writing, Knows

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

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• I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.

  Bob Dylan

  Kings, Wings, Impressed

  Song: Is Your Love In Vain ?, Album: Street Legal, 1978

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• The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Believe, Lexicon

  "Dylan Revisited" by David Gates, www.newsweek.com. October 5, 1997.

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• We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it

  Bob Dylan

  Deny, Stranded

  Song: Visions of Johanna

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