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• If you like someone's work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to. Anyone who wants to be a songwriter should listen to as much folk music as they can, study the form and structure of stuff that has been around for 100 years.

  Bob Dylan

  Years, Important, Want

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

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• I never read Freud. I've never been attracted to anything he has said, and I think he's started a lot of nonsense with psychiatry and that business. I don't think psychiatry can help or has helped anybody. I think it's a big fraud (pun not intended) on the public.

  Bob Dylan

  Thinking, Helping, Nonsense

  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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• Sometimes I'm thinkin' I'm Too high to fall Other times I'm thinkin' I'm So low I don't know If I can come up at all

  Bob Dylan

  Fall, Sometimes, Lows

  Song: Black Crow Blues, Album: Another Side of Bob Dylan

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• All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

  Bob Dylan

  Oil, Politics, Soil

  Song: Slow Train, Album: Slow Train Coming, 1979

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• Black is the Color and none is the number

  Bob Dylan

  Color, Numbers, Black

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• I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

  Bob Dylan

  Clouds, Next, Moments

  Bob Dylan (2005). “Bob Dylan: Inspirations”, p.136, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grinin

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Being Happy, Nerves

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• The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have titles.

  Bob Dylan

  Real, Thinking, Hands

  "Bob Dylan discusses his latest album 'Together Through Life'". The Monterey County Herald Interview, www.montereyherald.com. August 19, 2010.

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• Let the dead bury the dead, your time will come.

  Bob Dylan

  Death

  Song: Foot of Pride

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• Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?

  Bob Dylan

  Night, Play, Quiet

  Song: Visions Of Johanna

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• Truth is like a waterslide-only fun when it's slippery and wet.

  Bob Dylan

  Fun, Truth Is, Wet

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• There's a lot of false prophets around and that's the trouble. People say they think they know what's right and other people get people to follow them because they have a certain type of charisma, and there's always people willing to take over. People want a leader. And there will be more and more of them.

  Bob Dylan

  Thinking, People, Leader

  Source: www.rightwingbob.com

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• Let me ask you one question Is your money that good Will it buy you forgiveness Do you think that it could I think you will find When your death takes its toll All the money you made Will never buy back your soul

  Bob Dylan

  Thinking, Soul, Tolls

  Song: Masters Of War, Album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, 1963

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• I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

  Bob Dylan

  Insanity, Stubborn, Politics

  Song: Up to Me, Album: Biograph

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• I don't think I'm tangible to myself.

  Bob Dylan

  Thinking, Tangible

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

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• I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to see all at once, like all the books in the library-everything laying around on all the tables. You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Book, Ideas

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't get up gentlemen. I'm only passing through!

  Bob Dylan

  Gentleman, Get Up, Passing

  Song: Things Have Changed, Album: The Essential Bob Dylan, 2000

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• The song was there before me, before I came along. I just sorta came down and just sorta took it down with a pencil, but it was there before I came around.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Down And, Pencils

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• Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Inspire, Purpose

  Interview with Jonathan Cott, www.rollingstone.com. January 26, 1978.

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• My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Sound, Records

  "Bob Dylan Talks: A Raw and Extensive First Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.rollingstone.com. November 29, 1969.

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• Come mothers and fathers
  Throughout the land
  And don't criticize
  What you can't understand
  Your sons and your daughters
  Are beyond your command
  Your old road is
  Rapidly agin'
  Please get out of the new one
  If you can't lend your hand
  For the times they are a-changin'.

  Bob Dylan

  Daughter, Mother, Father

  The Times They Are A-Changing (1964 song)

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• What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

  Bob Dylan

  World

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

  Bob Dylan

  Love, America, Doe

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

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• Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak too soon For the wheel's still in spin And there's no tellin' who That it's namin' For the loser now Will be later to win For the times they are a-changin'.

  Bob Dylan

  Eye, Winning, Wheels

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

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• Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

  Bob Dylan

  Graduation, Home, College

  Bob Dylan (1995). “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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