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“He's a pinboy. He also wears suspenders. He's a real person. You know him, but not by that name… I saw him come into the room one night and he looked like a camel. He proceeded to put his eyes in his pocket. I asked this guy who he was and he said, "That's Mr. Jones." Then I asked this cat, "Doesn't he do anything but put his eyes in his pocket?" And he told me, "He puts his nose on the ground."”

It's all there, it's a true story.
When asked about the meaning of the song "Ballad of a Thin Man" during a 1965 interview.

“He's following a star, the same one that the three men followed east.”

Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Man of Peace

“May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung. May your song always be sung, May you stay forever young.”

Song lyrics, Planet Waves (1974), Forever Young

“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”

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

“Like Shakespeare, I too am often occupied with the pursuit of my creative endeavors and dealing with all aspects of life's mundane matters. "Who are the best musicians for these songs?" "Am I recording in the right studio?" "Is this song in the right key?" Some things never change, even in 400 years. Not once have I ever had the time to ask myself, "Are my songs literature?" So, I do thank the Swedish Academy, both for taking the time to consider that very question, and, ultimately, for providing such a wonderful answer.”

Nobel Banquet Speech

“As a performer I've played for 50,000 people and I've played for 50 people and I can tell you that it is harder to play for 50 people. 50,000 people have a singular persona, not so with 50. Each person has an individual, separate identity, a world unto themselves. They can perceive things more clearly. Your honesty and how it relates to the depth of your talent is tried.”

Nobel Banquet Speech

“You've been with the professors and they've all liked your looks. With great lawyers you've discussed lepers and crooks.”

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

“If your mem'ry serves you well, we were gonna meet again and wait, so I think I'll just unpack my bags and sit before it gets too late.
No man alive will come to you with another tale to tell, but you know that we shall meet again, if your mem'ry serves you well.”

Song lyrics, The Basement Tapes (1975), This Wheel's on Fire (recorded in 1967)

“I think what I need might be a full-length leather coat
Somebody just asked me
If I registered to vote”

Song lyrics, Time Out of Mind (1997), Highlands

“Well, it's sugar for sugar
And salt for salt
If you go down in the flood
It's gonna be your own fault”

Compare: "I give you sugar for sugar, but all you want is salt for salt/ Well if you can't get along with me, then it's your own fault." Richard Brown, James Alley Blues.
Song lyrics, The Basement Tapes (1975), Crash On The Levee (Down In The Flood) (recorded 1967)

“Jan had told him many times "it was you to me who taught:
in Jersey anything's legal as long as you don't get caught"”

Song lyrics, Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 (1988), Tweeter and the Monkey Man

“His clothes are dirty, but his hands are clean, and you're the best thing that he's ever seen.”

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

“Lord knows I've paid some dues gettin' through…”

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

“Say for me that I'm all right though things get kind of slow
She might think that I've forgotten her don't tell her it isn't so.”

Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), If You See Her, Say Hello

“A lot of people complaining that there is no work. I say, "Why you say that for?" When nothin' you got is US-made — they don't make nothin' here no more.”

Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Union Sundown

“I can't believe we've lived so long and are still so far apart.”

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

“How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail before she sleeps in the sand?”

Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Blowin' in the Wind

“Oh all the money that in my whole life I did spend
Be it mine right or wrongfully
I let it slip gladly past the hands of my friends
To tie up the time most forcefully”

Compare: "Of all the money e'er I had, I spent it in good company. And all the harm e'er I've done, Alas! it was to none but me." The Parting Glass.
Song lyrics, The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964), Restless Farewell

“And the National Bank at a profit sells road maps for the soul
To the old folks home and the college”

Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Tombstone Blues

“But my heart is not weary; it's light and it's free
I've got nothing but affection for those who've sailed with me.”

Song lyrics, Love and Theft (2001), Mississippi