Quotes by Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

American musician

Alive from: 1941-

Category: Music

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  A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.

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  A lot of people don't have much food on their table
  But they got a lot of forks and knives
  And they gotta cut something
  Source: Bob Dylan (1962)

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  A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

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  A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

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  A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
  Source: Liner notes bij album Bringing It All Back Home

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  Advertising signs that con you into thinking you are the one
  That can do what's never been done,
  That can win what's never been won
  Meanwhile, life outside goes on all around you
  Source: Bringing It All Back Home (1965)

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  Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

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  All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

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  Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

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  An' though the rules of the road have been lodged
  It's only people's games that you got to dodge
  Source: Bringing It All Back Home (1965)

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  And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot fighting in the captain's tower while calypso singers laugh at them and fishermen hold flowers...
  Source: Highway 61 Revisited (1965)

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  And I hope that you die
  And your death'll come soon
  I will follow your casket
  In the pale afternoon
  And I'll watch while you're lowered
  Down to your deathbed
  And I'll stand o'er your grave
  'Til I'm sure that you're dead
  Source: The Freewheelin Bob Dylan (1963)

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  And if my thought-dreams could be seen, they'd probably put my head in a guillotine.
  But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only.
  Source: Bringing It All Back Home (1965)

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  And something is happening here, but you don't know what it is, do you Mr. Jones?
  Source: Highway 61 Revisited (1965)

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  And the National Bank at a profit sells road maps for the soul
  To the old folks home and the college
  Source: Highway 61 Revisited (1965)