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

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Man of Peace

Men , Star

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

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Planet Waves (1974), Forever Young

Star

“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”

Bob Dylan

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

Life , Dreams

“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.”

Bob Dylan

Nobel Banquet Speech

Life , Literature , Question , Change

“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.”

Bob Dylan

Nobel Banquet Speech

People , World , Personality

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

Bob Dylan

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.”

Bob Dylan

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

Thinking , Waiting

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

Bob Dylan

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

Thinking

“Do you take me for such a fool to think I'd make contact with one that tries to hide what he don't know to begin with.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Positively 4th Street

Fools , Thinking

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

Bob Dylan

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"”

Bob Dylan

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

Time

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

Bob Dylan

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

Clothes

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

Bob Dylan

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.”

Bob Dylan

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

Thinking

“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.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Union Sundown

People

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

Bob Dylan

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?”

Bob Dylan

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

Sleep , Sea

“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”

Bob Dylan

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

Life , Money , Time , Past

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

Bob Dylan

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

Home , Soul

“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.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Love and Theft (2001), Mississippi

Light , Heart