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 DYLANIf you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
More Bob Dylan Quotes
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My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.
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One should never be where one does not belong.
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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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Everybody’s wearing a disguise, to hide what they’ve got left behind their eyes.
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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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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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I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
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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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Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.
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Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king.
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Music attracts the angels in the universe.
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You get older. You start having hopes for other people rather than yourself.
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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 don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there’s some kind of change.
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I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.
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