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 DYLANWhen 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.
More Bob Dylan Quotes
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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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Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.
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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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One should never be where one does not belong.
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If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
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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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No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
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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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The purpose of art is to stop time.
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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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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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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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Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it’s available. When the cost comes down, look out!
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He not busy being born is busy dying.
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All the money you made will never buy back your soul.
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