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 DYLANYou can always come back, but you can’t come back all the way.
More Bob Dylan Quotes
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You’ll never be greater than yourself.
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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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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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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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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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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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The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don’t think they have titles.
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An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he’s AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you’re constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you’ll sort of be alright.
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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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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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All the money you made will never buy back your soul.
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All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
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All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
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Everybody’s wearing a disguise, to hide what they’ve got left behind their eyes.
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Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don’t mean.
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