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.
BOB DYLANWhen 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.
More Bob Dylan Quotes
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Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain.
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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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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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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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The picture you have in your mind of what you’re about will come true.
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I’ll remember you. When I’ve forgotten all the rest.You to me were true. You to me were the best.
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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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May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.
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Never make it perfect.
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There is nothing so stable as change.
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If you need somebody you can trust, trust yourself
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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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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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Your mind is a your temple, keep it beautiful and free. Don’t let an egg get laid in it by something you can’t see.
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Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.
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