Top 100 Bob Dylan Quotes
#1. I don't need your organization, I've moved your mountains and I've marked you cards, but Eden is burning. You better get ready for elimination or else your hearts must have the courage of the changing of the guard.
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#2. And it's a hard, It's a hard, It's a hard, It's a hard, It's a hard rain gonna fall.
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#3. Satan will give you a little taste, then he'll move in with rapid speed.
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#4. I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.
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#5. All the tired horses in the sun How'm I supposed to get any ridin' done? Hmm.
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#6. We're living in times where men commit crimes and crime don't have a face.
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#7. Having hits buries a singer in the past. A lot of singers hide in the past because it's safer back there. If you've ever heard today's country music, you'll know what I'm talking about.
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#8. Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan.
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#9. I've never gone for having a great voice, for cultivating one. I'm still not doing it now.
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#10. I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin'. When she said, hey man, you crazy or somethin'?
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#11. Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade.
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#12. You don't count the dead, when god's on your side.
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#13. Her skirt it swayed as the guitar played
her mouth it was watery and yet ...
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#14. Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think of myself as the one who carries the light bulb.
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#15. Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
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#16. If God is on our side, he'll stop the next war.
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#18. As he weeps to wicked birds of prey, who pick up on his bread crumb sins, and there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden.
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#19. I said, you know they refused Jesus, too. He said, you're not him.
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#20. In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.
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#21. The whole world's a bottle, And life's but a dram, When the bottle gets empty, It sure ain't worth a damn.
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#22. Don't know which one is worse, doing your own thing or just being cool.
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#23. A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
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#24. Sing your praise of progress and the doom machine, the naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen.
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#25. Todays the day gonna grab my trombone and blow Thunder on the Mountain
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#26. You five and ten cent women with nothing in your heads, I got a real gal I'm loving and Lord I'll love her 'til I'm dead.
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#27. May you have a strong foundation when the winds of change shift ... and may you be forever young.
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#28. Warlords of sorrow and queens of tomorrow will offer their heads for a prayer. You can't find no salvation, you have no expectations anytime, anyplace, anywhere.
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#29. Well, the devil's in the alley, mule's in the stall
Say anything you wanna, I have heard it all.
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#30. Half of the people can be part right all of the time, Some of the people can be all right part of the time. I think Abraham Lincoln said that. 'I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours,' I said that.
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#31. I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
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#32. Everyone is making love or else expecting rain
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#33. I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.
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#34. How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?
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#35. 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'.
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#36. You know what they say about bein' nice to the right people on the way up Sooner or later you gonna meet them comin' down
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#37. Let the dead bury the dead, your time will come.
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#38. Beyond here lies nothin' But the mountains of the past
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#39. I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now.
From the back pages
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#40. Ah mama
what care the dead
t drink up their own toasts?
spirits slurping
candle syrup
affects whose emptiness?
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#41. Last night I danced with a stranger, but she just reminded me you were the one.
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#42. New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.
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#43. It ain't where you're from, its where you're going to
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#45. Seven shots ring out like the ocean's pounding roar, there's seven people dead on a South Dakota farm.
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#46. I used to think it's better if you just live and die and no one knows who you are.
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#47. Very, very protesty. And, uh, one of the protestiest of all things I ever protested against in my protest years.
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#48. An artist has got to be constantly in a state of becoming.
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#49. They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.
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#50. I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon.
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#51. It may look like I'm moving but I'm standing still.
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#52. If I had wings, no one would ask me: should I fly?
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#53. Dead man, dead man
When will you arise?
Cobwebs in your mind
Dust upon your eyes
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#54. Situations have ended sad,
Relationships have all been bad.
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#55. I always thought the best kind of sunglasses are the motorcycle helmets with the black plastic masks on them. That way, nobody can recognize the back of your head either.
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#56. I didn't know whether to duck or to run, so I ran.
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#57. I'm one too many mornings, and a thousand miles behind.
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#58. Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount,
But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts.
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#59. It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry
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#60. I don't think I'm tangible to myself.
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#61. I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.
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#62. I march in the parade of liberty
But as long as I love you I'm not free
How long must I suffer such abuse
Won't you let me see you smile one time before I turn you loose?
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#64. 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
There's a battle outside ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.
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#65. Don't get up gentlemen. I'm only passing through!
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#66. Silvio, I gotta go, find out something only dead men know.
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#67. She never stumbles,
she's got no place to fall.
She's nobody's child,
the law can't touch her at all.
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#68. Get jailed, jump bail, join the Army if you fail.
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#69. I like spiritual songs. They struck me as truthful and serious. They brought me down to earth and they lifted me up all in the same moment.
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#70. The motorcycle black madonna Two wheeled gypsy queen.
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#71. There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
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#72. There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It's hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger.
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#73. Oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies.
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#74. It's like going out to the desert and screaming and then having little kids throw their sandbox at you. I'm only 24.
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#75. I'm used to writing songs and songs-I can fill em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book (Chronicles, Vol. 1), you gotta tell the truth, and it can't be misinterpreted.
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#76. The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face
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#77. What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.
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#78. I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.
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#79. Well, I don't know, but I've been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!
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#80. I'll always thank the Lord when my working day is through, I get my sweet reward to be alone with you.
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#81. The only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row.
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#82. You have to look at every one of your songs and be able to identify with them in a meaningful way. You can hardly sing your songs unless you're in them. If you want to fake it, go ahead. Fake it if you want. But I'm not that kind of singer.
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#83. 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
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#84. You use to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat, who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat.
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#85. Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road.
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#86. I'm the oldest son of a crazy man, I'm in a cowboy band.
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#87. Sometimes the silence can be like thunder.
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#88. Passion rules the arrow that flies.
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#89. A cork screw to my heart, ever since we've been apart.
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#90. We are singing today of the WIPE-OUT GANG - the WIPE-OUT GANG buys, owns & operates the Insanity Factory - if you do not know where the Insanity Factory is located, you should hereby take two steps to the right, paint your teeth & go to sleep ...
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#92. Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up?
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#93. All I can be is me- whoever that is.
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#94. I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
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#95. They kill people here who stand up for their rights The system's just too damned corrupt It's always the same, the name of the game Is who do you know higher up
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#96. There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better.
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#97. I could be unraveling wherever I'm traveling, even to foreign shores.
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#98. I really was never any more than what I was -a folk musician who gazed into the gray mist with tear-blinded eyes and made up songs that floated in a luminous haze.
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#99. A lot of people from the press want to talk to me, but they never do.
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#100. He hands you a nickel, he hands you a dime. He asks you with a grin, if you're having a good time.
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