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.
BOB DYLANPeople seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
More Bob Dylan Quotes
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I kinda live where I find myself.
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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 get older. You start having hopes for other people rather than yourself.
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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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Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
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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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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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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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I believe that instinct is what makes a genius a genius.
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This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
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I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
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People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
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If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
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You can always come back, but you can’t come back all the way.
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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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