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 DYLANI define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
More Bob Dylan Quotes
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Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.
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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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If I lived my life by what others were thinkin’, the heart inside me would’ve died.
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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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I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
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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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I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.
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If you need somebody you can trust, trust yourself
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All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
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Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
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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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Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.
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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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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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If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
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