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• People are going to say, ‘Well, it’s not very truthful.’ But a songwriter doesn’t care about what’s truthful. What he cares about is what should’ve happened, what could’ve happened. That’s its own kind of truth. It’s like people who read Shakespeare plays, but they never see a Shakespeare play. I think they just use his name.

  Bob Dylan

  Thinking, Names, Play

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• People do whatever they want to do, y'know.

  Bob Dylan

  People, Want, Knows

  Source: www.needsomefun.net

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• The "joker" here ["All Along the Watchtower" ] is the older [Bob] Dylan himself, whining about exploitation, and the thief's rejoinder re-contextualizes the earlier critique into the religious frames that would become more prominent as time went on.

  Bob Dylan

  Religious, Thieves, Bob

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• ...how many times must the cannon balls fly
  Before they're forever banned?

  Bob Dylan

  Peace, Forever, Balls

  Song: Blowin' In The Wind

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• I'd been going though his trash. He knocked me down. I was glad to see him, even though he was banging my head against the sidewalk. Afterwards these bums come over and say, 'Did he get much money?' I say, 'Money'? That was Bob Dylan.

  Bob Dylan

  Bob, Trash, Dylan

  "Why Bob Dylan deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature". Interview with Robert Chalmers, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 13, 2016.

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• Oh, God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son"
  Abe said, "Man, you must be puttin' me on"
  God said, "No" Abe say, "What?"
  God say, "You can do what you want, Abe, but
  The next time you see me comin', you better run"
  Well, Abe said, "Where d'you want this killin' done?"
  God said, "Out on Highway 61".

  Bob Dylan

  Running, Son, Men

  "Highway 61 Revisited". Song by Bob Dylan, 1965.

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• Get jailed, jump bail, join the Army if you fail.

  Bob Dylan

  Army, Order, Law

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

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• An artist has got to be constantly in a state of becoming.

  Bob Dylan

  Artist, Becoming, States

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• And I'll know my song well before I start singing

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Singing, Wells

  Betsy Bowden, Bob Dylan (2001). “Performed Literature: Words and Music by Bob Dylan”, University Press of Amer

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• Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am.

  Bob Dylan

  Here I Am, Clown, Stuck In The Middle

  "Letters: Supernova Sleuth; Gerry Rafferty". Interview with Michele Norris, www.npr.org. January 5, 2011.

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• Well, my daddy, he didn't leave me much, you know he was a very simple man, but what he did tell me was this, he did say, son, he said, he say, you know it's possible to become so defiled in this world that your own father and mother will abandon you and if that happens, God will always believe in your ability to mend your ways.

  Bob Dylan

  Mother, Father, Believe

  Bob Dylan's acceptance speech for a lifetime achievement award at the Grammys, www.expectingrain.com. February 20, 1991.

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• Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.

  Bob Dylan

  Teacher, Book, Sea

  Song: Jokerman, Album: Infidels, 1983

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• Well, the moral of the story, The moral of this song, Is simply that one should never be Where one does not belong. So when you see your neighbor carryin' somethin', Help him with his load, And don't go mistaking Paradise For that home across the road.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Home, Doe

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

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• Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan.

  Bob Dylan

  Politics, Someday, Plans

  Song: Maybe Someday, Album: Knocked Out Loaded, 1986

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• Everything in New Orleans is a good idea.

  Bob Dylan

  New Orleans, Ideas, Good Ideas

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• The executioner's face is always well hidden.

  Bob Dylan

  Expression, Faces, Executioners

  Song: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, Album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, 1963

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• Loneliness Got a mind of its own The more people around The more you feel alone

  Bob Dylan

  Loneliness, People, Mind

  Song: Marchin' to the City

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• It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry

  Bob Dylan

  Laughing, Cry, Train

  Song: It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry

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• They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.

  Bob Dylan

  Work, Congratulations, Race

  Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.689, Simon and Schuster

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• Last night I danced with a stranger, but she just reminded me you were the one.

  Bob Dylan

  Night, Lasts, Stranger

  Song: Standing In The Doorway, Album: Time Out of Mind, 1997

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• Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount, But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts.

  Bob Dylan

  Nails, Matter, Deputies

  Song: Shelter From The Storm, 1975

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• If I made records for my own pleasure, I would only record Charley Patton songs.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Records, Pleasure

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• It wouldn't kill you to stay the night anyway.

  Bob Dylan

  Night

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• It's not dark yet But it's getting there

  Bob Dylan

  Dark

  Song: Not Dark Yet, 1997

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• Lay down the song you strum, And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Voice, Strings

  Song: Lay Down Your Weary Tune, Album: Biograph

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