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 DYLANThere is nothing so stable as change.
More Bob Dylan Quotes
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He not busy being born is busy dying.
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You get older. You start having hopes for other people rather than yourself.
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You can’t be wise and in love at the same time.
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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 kinda live where I find myself.
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I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.
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My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.
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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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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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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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I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
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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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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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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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