Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.
BOB DYLANI started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.
More Bob Dylan Quotes
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Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
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I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.
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Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.
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There’s beauty in the silver singing river There’s beauty in the sunrise in the sky But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty That I remember in my true love’s eyes
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If I lived my life by what others were thinkin’, the heart inside me would’ve died.
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You have to work out where your place is. And who you are. But we’re all spirit. That’s all we are, we’re just walking dressed up in a suit of skin, and we’re going to leave that behind.
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What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
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Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.
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An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he’s AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you’re constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you’ll sort of be alright.
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My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.
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I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
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Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won’t invite what’s not there to begin with.
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Now, each of us has his own special gift And you know this was meant to be true. And if you don’t underestimate me I won’t underestimate you.
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Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.
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May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.
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