You can always come back, but you can’t come back all the way.
BOB DYLANIt’s not important what other people call you. If you yourself know you’re a fake, that’s tougher to live with.
More Bob Dylan Quotes
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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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Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.
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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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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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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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You always got to be prepared but you never know for what.
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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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Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content.
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People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.
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People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
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Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle.
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May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.
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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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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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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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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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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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I was born a long way from where I belong and I am on my way home.
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Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
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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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If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
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I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.
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What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
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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’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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A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
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