Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 25

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• A million faces at my feet but all I see are dark eyes.

  Bob Dylan

  Eye, Dark, Feet

  Song: Dark Eyes, Album: Empire Burlesque, 1985

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• People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.

  Bob Dylan

  Book, People, Dimes

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

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• It's like going out to the desert and screaming and then having little kids throw their sandbox at you. I'm only 24.

  Bob Dylan

  Kids, Desert, Going Out

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

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• I'm the oldest son of a crazy man, I'm in a cowboy band.

  Bob Dylan

  Crazy, Son, Cowboy

  Song: Nettie Moore, Album: Modern Times, 2006

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• Inside the museum infinity goes up on trial. Voices echo, 'This is what salvation must be like after a while.' But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.

  Bob Dylan

  Echoes, Museums, Voice

  Song: Visions of Johanna

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• Beauty walks a razors edge, someday I'll make it mine.

  Bob Dylan

  Razors, Someday, Walks

  Song: Shelter from the Storm, 1975

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• A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they got a lot of forks 'n knives. And they got to cut somethin'.

  Bob Dylan

  Cutting, Knives, People

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• When the jelly faced women all sneeze, hear the one with the mustache say I can't find my knees.

  Bob Dylan

  Mustache, Jelly, Knees

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

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• God knows there's a heaven.

  Bob Dylan

  Profound, Heaven, God Knows

  Song: God Knows, Album: Under The Red Sky, 1990

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• They're selling postcards of the hanging They're painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town Here comes the blind commissioner They've got him in a trance One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker The other is in his pants And the riot squad they're restless They need somewhere to go As Lady and I look out tonight From Desolation Row.

  Bob Dylan

  Hands, Squad, Needs

  Song: Desolation Row, Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

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• Seven shots ring out like the ocean's pounding roar, there's seven people dead on a South Dakota farm.

  Bob Dylan

  Ocean, People, Insanity

  Song: Ballad of Hollis Brown

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• I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Heart, Soul

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

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• I just wanted a song to sing, and there came a point where I couldn't sing anything...nobo dy else was writing what I wanted to sing. I couldn't find it anywhere. If I could I probably would never have started writing.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Writing, Wanted

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• The ghosts race towards the light, you can almost hear the heavy breathing spirits, all determined to get somewhere. New Orleans, unlike a lot of places you go back to and that don't have the magic anymore, still has got it. Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. You can't see it, but you know it's here. Somebody's always sinking.

  Bob Dylan

  Night, New Orleans, Light

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• Cop comes down the street crazy as a loon, he throws us in jail for carrying harpoons.

  Bob Dylan

  Crazy, Jail, Insanity

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• My songs are personal music, they're not communal. I wouldn't want people singing along with me. It would sound funny. I'm not playing campfire meetings. I don't remember anyone singing along with Elvis, Carl Perkins or Little Richard.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, People, Singing

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• I love Country Music but what happened to it?

  Bob Dylan

  Country, Country Love, Happened

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• There's no liquor in the land that can stop your brain from bleedin

  Bob Dylan

  Land, Brain, Liquor

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• She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall. She's nobody's child, the law can't touch her at all.

  Bob Dylan

  Children, Fall, Law

  Song: She Belongs To Me, Album: Bringing It All Back Home, 1965

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• I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

  Bob Dylan

  Giving, Sick, Soul

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• Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

  Bob Dylan

  Lying, Want, Way

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

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• Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time.

  Bob Dylan

  Time, Mind, Ruins

  'Mr Tambourine Man' (1964 song)

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• With your silhouette when the sunlight dims Into your eyes where the moonlight swims, And your match-book songs and your gypsy hymns, Who among them would try to impress you? -Bob Dylan, "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” (1966)

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Book, Eye

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• If you're looking to get silly, you better go back to from where you came. because the cops don't need you and man they expect the same.

  Bob Dylan

  Silly, Men, Needs

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• It's not easy to define poetry.

  Bob Dylan

  Easy

  "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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