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.
BOB DYLANOne should never be where one does not belong.
More Bob Dylan Quotes
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Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.
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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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Never make it perfect.
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I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.
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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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You can always come back, but you can’t come back all the way.
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Music can save people, but it can’t in the commercial way it’s being used. It’s just too much. It’s pollution.
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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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Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won’t invite what’s not there to begin with.
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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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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 kinda live where I find myself.
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You always got to be prepared but you never know for what.
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How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn’t see?
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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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