I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
BOB DYLANCreativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn’t work.
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Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don’t mean.
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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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Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.
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Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can’t sing, I call a poem.
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You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
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You don’t necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they’re poets. I don’t call myself a poet, because I don’t like the word. I’m a trapeze artist.
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A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
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They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.
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Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.
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I’ve never been able to understand the seriousness of it all, the seriousness of pride. People talk, act, live as if they’re never going to die. And what do they leave behind? Nothing. Nothing but a mask.
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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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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 there’s some kind of change.
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I kinda live where I find myself.
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When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it – don’t back down and don’t give up – then you’re going to mystify a lot of folks.
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All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
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