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 DYLANEverybody’s wearing a disguise, to hide what they’ve got left behind their eyes.
More Bob Dylan Quotes
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I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.
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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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Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.
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There are things I could say. But I don’t.
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My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.
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I believe that instinct is what makes a genius a genius.
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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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The picture you have in your mind of what you’re about will come true.
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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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The purpose of art is to stop time.
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You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
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Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.
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I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
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Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle.
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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.
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