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 DYLANIf you need somebody you can trust, trust yourself
More Bob Dylan Quotes
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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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A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
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I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.
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Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.
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I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
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The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don’t think they have titles.
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To live outside the law, you must be honest.
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Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain.
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Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn’t work.
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People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
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You always got to be prepared but you never know for what.
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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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Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it’s available. When the cost comes down, look out!
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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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If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
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May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.
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I kinda live where I find myself.
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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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Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.
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One should never be where one does not belong.
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All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
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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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Never make it perfect.
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Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.
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Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king.
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People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.
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