I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

Bob Dylan

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Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.
BOB DYLAN

Experience People Silence Teaching Terrify
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 DYLAN

Artist Myself Necessary People Poet Work Writing
Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up?
BOB DYLAN

Adult Law Porn Rule School Wake Up Yourself
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.
BOB DYLAN

Dreams Myself People Right Time
Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content.
BOB DYLAN

Connection People Satisfaction Strange Strong Suffering
Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.
BOB DYLAN

Criticism Understand Yourself
The picture you have in your mind of what you’re about will come true.
BOB DYLAN

Mindset Photograph True Yourself
We have never arrived. We are in a constant state of becoming.
BOB DYLAN

Arrive Inspirational Spiritual State
Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain.
BOB DYLAN

Beautiful Enough Kind Pain
Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can’t sing, I call a poem.
BOB DYLAN

Myself Name Poem Sing Song
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.
BOB DYLAN

Leaving Place Skin Spirit Walk Work Yourself
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 DYLAN

Death Live Myself Serious Understand
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.
BOB DYLAN

Beautiful Freedom Mindset See Temple Yourself
Dealing with my own life takes priority over other people dealing with my life.
BOB DYLAN

Deal Life Myself Priority
My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.
BOB DYLAN

Better Myself Person Record Sound
Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.
BOB DYLAN

Bite Lips Yourself
Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.
BOB DYLAN

Kind Lost Money People Save Yourself
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
BOB DYLAN

Freedom Hero Myself Responsibility Thinking
Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle.
BOB DYLAN

Load Peace Time Weapon
You’ll never be greater than yourself.
BOB DYLAN

Greatness Yourself
One should never be where one does not belong.
BOB DYLAN

Oneself Place
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
BOB DYLAN

Beautiful Myself Patriot Rule
Music can save people, but it can’t in the commercial way it’s being used. It’s just too much. It’s pollution.
BOB DYLAN

Commercial Music People Pollution Save
How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn’t see?
BOB DYLAN

Himself Man Pretend See Time
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.
BOB DYLAN

King Patriot Prison Steal Yourself
A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
BOB DYLAN

Commitment Mistake Understand
To live outside the law, you must be honest.
BOB DYLAN

Honesty Law Live Yourself

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

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