Bob Dylan: Trending quotes (page 16)

“Early one mornin' the sun was shinin',
I was layin' in bed
Wond'rin'if she'd changed at all
If her hair was still red.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Tangled Up In Blue

Change , Sun

“What looks large from a distance, close up ain't never that big.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Empire Burlesque (1985), Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love)

“Politician's got on his jogging shoes, he must be running for office, got no time to lose”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Love and Theft (2001), Summer Days

Shoe , Time

“I feel pretty good, but that ain't saying much — I could feel a whole lot better, if you were just here by my side to show me how.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Knocked Out Loaded (1986), Brownsville Girl (with Sam Shepard)

Feeling

“Hey, hey, Woody Guthrie, I wrote you a song,
'Bout a funny ol' world that's a-comin' along
Seems sick an' it's hungry, it's tired an' it's torn
It looks like it's a-dyin' an' it's hardly been born”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Bob Dylan (1962), Song to Woody

World

“It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall

“You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin’ out
Now you don’t talk so loud
Now you don’t seem so proud
About having to be scrounging for your next meal”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Like a Rolling Stone

“Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands,
Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes,
My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums,
Should I leave them by your gate,
Or, sad-eyed lady, should I wait?”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands

Sadness , Waiting

“If I catch my opponents ever sleepin', I'll just slaughter 'em where they lie.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Modern Times (2006), Ain't Talkin

Lie

“do Not create anything, it will be
misinterpreted. it will not change.
it will follow you the rest of your life.”

Bob Dylan

"Advice for Geraldine on Her Miscellaneous" (1964)

Life , Change

“I'm listening to Billy Joe Shaver
And I'm reading James Joyce
Some people they tell me
I've got the blood of the land in my voice”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Together Through Life (2009), I Feel A Change Coming On

People , Reading

“I'd throw all the guns and the tanks in the sea, for they are mistakes of a past history.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991 (1991), Let Me Die In My Footsteps (recorded 1962)

History , Past , Sea

“Come in", she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Shelter from the Storm

“Stay, lady, stay. Stay while the night is still ahead.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Nashville Skyline (1969), Lay Lady Lay

Night

“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.”

Bob Dylan

Dylan Revisited http://europe.newsweek.com/dylan-revisited-174056?rm=eu, Newsweek (1997)

Truth , Music

“I know she ain't you, but she's here, and she's got that dark rhythm in her soul.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Knocked Out Loaded (1986), Brownsville Girl (with Sam Shepard)

Soul

“I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Maggie's Farm

“And something is happening here, but you don't know what it is, do you Mr. Jones?”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Ballad of a Thin Man

“If the Bible is right the world will explode”

Bob Dylan

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

World

“Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth
"Rip down all hate," I screamed
Lies that life is black and white
Spoke from my skull.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964), My Back Pages

Life , Hate