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 DYLANPeople seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
More Bob Dylan Quotes
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I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.
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You always got to be prepared but you never know for what.
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I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there’s some kind of change.
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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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People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.
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Music attracts the angels in the universe.
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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 started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.
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Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.
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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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Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.
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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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I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
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I believe that instinct is what makes a genius a genius.
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Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content.
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All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
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I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.
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Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle.
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No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
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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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The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don’t think they have titles.
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A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
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The purpose of art is to stop time.
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There is nothing so stable as change.
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We have never arrived. We are in a constant state of becoming.
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He not busy being born is busy dying.
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