Bob Dylan: Trending quotes (page 17)

“An artist has gotta be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's at somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming.”

Bob Dylan

No Direction Home (2005)

Thinking

“America was changing. I had a feeling of destiny and I was riding the changes… My consciousness was beginning to change, too, change and stretch.”

Bob Dylan

Source: Chronicles: Vol. One (2004), p. 73

Feeling , Change

“Drinkin' man listens to the voice he hears,
In a crowded room full of covered up mirrors,
Lookin' into the lost forgotten years
For dignity”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume 3 (1994), Dignity

“Lay, lady, lay. Lay across my big, brass bed.”

Bob Dylan

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

“That ear - I mean, Jesus, he's got to will that to the Smithsonian.”

Bob Dylan

In reference to Brian Wilson, Newsweek (1997)

“You prayed to the Lord above
Oh please send you a friend
Your empty pockets tell yuh
That you ain’t a-got no friend”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964), Ballad of Hollis Brown

“Yesterday's just a memory; tomorrow's never what it's supposed to be.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight

Memory

“I hate myself for loving you.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Planet Waves (1974), Dirge

Love , Hate

“Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content.”

Bob Dylan

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

People , Suffering

“She knows too much to argue or to judge.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Love Minus Zero/No Limit

“I think it's the land. The streams, the forests, the vast emptiness. The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots. But I have a love for humankind, a love of truth, and a love of justice. I think I have a dualistic nature. I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.”

Bob Dylan

London Times interview http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6043331.ece (2009)

Love , Truth , Justice , Travel

“Well, I wanna be your lover, baby, I don't wanna be your boss.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry

Lovers , Baby

“It's not to anybody's best interest to think about how they will be perceived tomorrow. It hurts you in the long run.”

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan: The Song Talk Interview http://www.interferenza.com/bcs/interw/1991zollo.htm by Paul Zollo (1991)

Thinking , Hurt

“In the dark I hear the night birds call
I can feel a lover's breath
I sleep in the kitchen with my feet in the hall
Sleep is like a temporary death”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Modern Times (2006), Workingman's Blues #2

Death , Feeling , Lovers , Bird

“Come Congressmen, Senators, please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall
For he who gets hurt will be he who has stalled
There’s a battle outside and it's ragin’.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964), The Times They Are A-Changin

Hurt

“You tamed the lion in my cage but it just wasn't enough to change my heart”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Idiot Wind

Change , Heart

“Don't turn away, you'll create sorrow,
Time is an ocean but it ends at the shore,
You may not see me tomorrow.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Desire (1976), Oh, Sister

Time

“Feel as though my soul has turned into steel. I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Time Out of Mind (1997), Not Dark Yet

Feeling , Soul , Sun

“Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you.
Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

Dead , Forgetting

“Have they counted the cost it'll take to bring down all the earthly principles they're gonna have to abandon?”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), Slow Train