Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don’t mean.
BOB DYLANYou 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.
More Bob Dylan Quotes
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You can always come back, but you can’t come back all the way.
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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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People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.
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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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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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No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
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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 are crazy and times are strange. I used to care but things have changed
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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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Never make it perfect.
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Music attracts the angels in the universe.
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There are things I could say. But I don’t.
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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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Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.
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God, I’m glad I’m not me.
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