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• Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, I Can

  Bob Dylan, Robert Santelli (2005). “The Bob Dylan scrapbook: 1956-1966”, Egully.com

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• Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I've never thought about that before! He said, When you're not following me, you're resisting me.

  Bob Dylan

  Jesus, Bob, Follow Me

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• I don't really have a retirement plan.

  Bob Dylan

  Retirement, Plans

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• Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Eye, Media

  Song: Abandoned Love, Album: Biograph

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• Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.

  Bob Dylan

  Work, Loneliness, Fighting

  Song: No Time to Think, Album: Street Legal, 1978

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• There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them In this age of fiberglass I'm searching for a gem The crystal ball up on the wall hasn't shown me nothing yet I've paid the price of solitude, but at last I'm out of debt

  Bob Dylan

  Wall, Loneliness, Solitude

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.460, Simon and Schuster

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• Come senators, congressmen, Please heed the call, Don't stand in the doorway, Don't block up the hall, For he that gets hurt, Will be he who has stalled, The battle outside ragin', Will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls, For the times they are a-changin'...

  Bob Dylan

  Hurt, Wall, Block

  "Song: The Times They Are a-Changin'". March 8, 1965.

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• Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.

  Bob Dylan

  Inspirational, Two, People

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• In songs, you have to tell people about something they didn't see and weren't there for, and you have to do it as if you were.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, People, Ifs

  "Bob Dylan Unleashed". Interview with Mikal Gilmore, www.rollingstone.com. September 27, 2012.

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• I just don't hear anyone else making the music I'm making in my head, so I'll have to do it myself.

  Bob Dylan

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• It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain't got any friends.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Pay, Who Your Friends Are

  Bob Dylan (1970). “Tarantula”

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• I wouldn't even think of playing music if I was
  born in these times. I wouldn't even listen to the radio.

  Bob Dylan

  Thinking, Playing Music, Radio

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• The worth of things can't be measured by what they cost but by what the cost you to get it, that if anything costs you your faith or your family, then the price is too high, and that there are some things that will never wear out.

  Bob Dylan

  Cost, Ifs

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• The Rolling Stones are truly the greatest rock and roll band in the world and always will be. The last too. Everything that came after them, metal, rap, punk, new wave, pop-rock, you name it... you can trace it all back to the Rolling Stones. They were the first and the last and no one's ever done it better.

  Bob Dylan

  Rap, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 13, 2009.

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• Don't follow leaders.

  Bob Dylan

  Leader

  "Subterranean Homesick Blues" (song) (1965)

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• Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

  Bob Dylan

  Ambition, Order, Needs

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

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• I never wanted to be a prophet or a saviour. Elvis maybe

  Bob Dylan

  Prophet, Wanted, Saviour

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• ... we're living in a Machiavellian world, whether we like it or we don't.

  Bob Dylan

  Insanity, World

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

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• A cat's meow and cow's moo, I can recite them all.

  Bob Dylan

  Cat, Cows, Dense

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• The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through dust no matter how thick.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Blow, Media

  Song: Restless Farewell, Album: The Times They Are A-Changin', 1964

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• Feeling funny in my mind, Lord I believe I'm fixing to die Well, I don't mind dying But I hate to leave my children crying Well, I look over yonder to that burying ground Look over yonder to that burying ground Sure seems lonesome, Lord, when the sun goes down

  Bob Dylan

  Death, Children, Hate

  Song: Fixin' To Die Blues, Album: Bob Dylan, 1962

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• Even I don't know what I'm saying most of the time.

  Bob Dylan

  Knows

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• But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

  Bob Dylan

  President, United States, Naked

  "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" (song) (1965)

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• My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as long as it takes to write it...In writing songs I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie...It's not me, it's the songs. I'm just the postman, I deliver the songs...I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Writing, Long

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• Crimson flames tied through my ears Rollin' high and mighty traps Pounced with fire on flaming roads Using ideas as my maps "We'll meet on edges, soon," said I Proud 'neath heated brow. Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth "Rip down all hate," I screamed Lies that life is black and white Spoke from my skull. I dreamed Romantic facts of musketeers Foundationed deep, somehow. Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

  Bob Dylan

  Rip, Lying, Hate

  Song: My Back Pages

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