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“I'm gonna spare the defeated—I'm gonna speak to the crowd
I'm gonna spare the defeated, boys, I'm going to speak to the crowd
I am goin' to teach peace to the conquered
I'm gonna tame the proud”

Bob Dylan

Compare: "But yours will be the rulership of nations, / remember Roman, these will be your arts: / to teach the ways of peace to those you conquer, / to spare defeated peoples, tame the proud." The Aeneid of Virgil: A Verse Translation by Allen Mandelbaum, 6.1134–1137.
Song lyrics, Love and Theft (2001), Lonesome Day Blues

“You go to Sodom and Gomorrah, but what do you care? Ain't nobody there would want to marry your sister.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Jokerman

“I put one on the turntable and when the needle dropped, I was stunned — didn't know if I was stoned or straight… All these songs together, one after another made my head spin. It made me want to gasp. It was like the land parted.”

Bob Dylan

Referring to the first Woody Guthrie record he ever heard, p. 243
Chronicles: Vol. One (2004)

“My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.”

Bob Dylan

The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bob-dylan-talks-a-raw-and-extensive-first-rolling-stone-interview-19691129 (29 November 1969)

“Man is opposed to fair play: he wants it all, and he wants it his way.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), License to Kill

“But I see through your eyes”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Masters of War

“You may call me Bobby; you may call me Zimmy…”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), Gotta Serve Somebody

“They'd like to drive me from this town; they don't want me around, 'cause I believe in you.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), I Believe in You

“Let me feel your love one more time before I abandon it.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Biograph (1985), Abandoned Love (recorded 1975)

“Feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet… Putting her in a wheel barrow and wheeling her down the street.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, The Essential Bob Dylan (2000), Things Have Changed (recorded 1999)

“I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know there are some people terrified of the bomb, but there are others terrified to be seen carrying a Modern Screen magazine. Experience teaches that silence terrifies the most.”

Bob Dylan

As quoted in "Cosmo Listens to Records" http://www.mediafire.com/view/za1l4i1dftotwg9/.png by Nat Hentoff, in Cosmopolitan (November 1965)

“Love is so simple, to quote a phrase; you've known it all the time, I'm learnin' it these days.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), You're a Big Girl Now

“I am a writer an a singer of the words I write I am no speaker nor any politician an my songs speak for me because I write them in the confinement of my own mind an have t cope with no one except my own self.”

Bob Dylan

Letter sent to the ECLC after Dylan received the Tom Paine Award at the Bill of Rights dinner on December 13, 1963, as reported in "Mr. Dylan Regrets" http://www.hotpress.com/Bob-Dylan/music/interviews/Mr-Dylan-Regrets/2836632.html by Niall Stokes, Hot Press (11 November 2005)

“I couldn’t see when it started snowin’
Your voice was all that I heard”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)

“I know where I can find you — in somebody's room. It's the price I have to pay, you're a big girl all the way.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), You're a Big Girl Now

“Louise she's all right she's just near'
She's delicate and seems like veneer'
But she just makes it all too concise and too clear'
That Johanna's not here”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Visions of Johanna

“Nobody sees through him — no, not even the chief of police.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Man of Peace