My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.
BOB DYLANCreativity 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.
More Bob Dylan Quotes
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The purpose of art is to stop time.
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Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.
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Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it’s available. When the cost comes down, look out!
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I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
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Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content.
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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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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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You always got to be prepared but you never know for what.
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Dealing with my own life takes priority over other people dealing with my life.
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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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Everything passes, Everything changes, Just do what you think you should do.
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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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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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Music can save people, but it can’t in the commercial way it’s being used. It’s just too much. It’s pollution.
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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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