The purpose of art is to stop time.
BOB DYLANI became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
More Bob Dylan Quotes
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No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
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Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.
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Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.
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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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Everybody’s wearing a disguise, to hide what they’ve got left behind their eyes.
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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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I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.
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Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.
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Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.
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Sometimes the silence can be like thunder.
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You always got to be prepared but you never know for what.
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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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There are things I could say. But I don’t.
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May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong, may you stay forever young.
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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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