I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.
BOB DYLANWe have never arrived. We are in a constant state of becoming.
More Bob Dylan Quotes
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There is nothing so stable as change.
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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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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.
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I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.
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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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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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A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
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Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
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Music attracts the angels in the universe.
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Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.
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No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
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You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more.
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Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle.
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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.
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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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People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
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People are crazy and times are strange. I used to care but things have changed
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There are things I could say. But I don’t.
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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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Let me ask you one question Is your money that good Will it buy you forgiveness Do you think that it could I think you will find When your death takes its toll All the money you made Will never buy back your soul
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There’s beauty in the silver singing river There’s beauty in the sunrise in the sky But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty That I remember in my true love’s eyes
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Sometimes the silence can be like thunder.
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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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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.
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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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I was born a long way from where I belong and I am on my way home.
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