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“When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain?”

Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), When You Gonna Wake Up

“Throw my ticket out the window,
Throw my suitcase out there too,
Throw my troubles out the door, I don't need them anymore,
'Cause tonight I'll be staying here with you.”

Song lyrics, Nashville Skyline (1969), Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You

“Well I tried my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them”

Song lyrics, The Essential Bob Dylan (2000), Maggie's Farm

“The vagabond who's rapping at your door,
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore,
Strike another match, go start anew!
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.”

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

“Try imagining a place where it's always safe and warm…”

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

“While others say don't hate nothing at all
Except hatred”

Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)

“I lived with them on Montague Street
In a basement down the stairs
There was music in the cafes at night
And revolution in the air.”

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

“Freedom just around the corner for you, but with truth so far off, what good will it do?”

Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Jokerman

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

“Somebody's got to cry some tears, I guess it must be up to me.”

Song lyrics, Biograph (1985), Up to Me (recorded 1974)

“He could be standing next to you, the person that you notice least.”

Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Man of Peace

“I once held her in my arms,
She said she would always stay,
But I was cruel, I treated her like a fool,
I threw it all away.”

Song lyrics, Nashville Skyline (1969), I Threw It All Away

“I'm sick of love but I'm in the thick of it.”

Song lyrics, Time Out of Mind (1997), Love Sick

“God, I'm glad I'm not me.”

Said when reading a newspaper article about himself in Dont Look Back (1967)
Variant: God, I'm glad I'm not me.

“You have to be let alone to really accomplish anything.”

Interview by Hubert Saal, "Dylan is Back," Newsweek (26 February 1968)

“Reporter: How many people who labor in the same musical vineyard in which you toil - how many are protest singers? That is, people who use their music, and use the songs to protest the, uh, social state in which we live today: the matter of war, the matter of crime, or whatever it might be.
Bob Dylan: Um…how many?
Reporter: Yes. How many?
Bob Dylan: Uh, I think there's about, uh…136.
Reporter: You say about 136, or you mean exactly 136?
Bob Dylan: Uh, it's either 136 or 142.”

Press conference in Los Angeles, California (17 December 1965), as seen and heard in No Direction Home.

“You're an idiot, babe. It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.”

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

“The people in my songs are all me.”

"Bob Dylan Sounds Off On The Origin Of His New Record, Parlor Music, Dr. Dre, And Who His Songs Are About" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/19/bob-dylan-interview-revea_n_188782.html, Huffington Post (20 May 2009)

“There's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all.”

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

“And you say, Oh my God, am I here all alone?”

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