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“I didn't know whether to duck or to run, so I ran.”

Bob Dylan

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

“Sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Man of Peace

Peace

“Far between sundown’s finish an’ midnight’s broken toll,
We ducked inside the doorway, thunder crashing.
As majestic bells of bolts struck shadows in the sounds,
Seeming to be the chimes of freedom flashing.
Flashing for the warriors whose strength is not to fight,
Flashing for the refugees on the unarmed road of flight,
An’ for each an’ ev’ry underdog soldier in the night,
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964), Chimes of Freedom

Freedom , Fight , Night

“I paid the price of solitude but at least I'm out of debt.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Planet Waves (1974), Dirge

Solitude

“I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows. I'm in the bottomless pit of cultural oblivion.”

Bob Dylan

Source: Chronicles: Vol. One (2004), p. 147

“Morality has nothing in common with politics.”

Bob Dylan

Source: Chronicles: Vol. One (2004), p. 45

“Colleges are like old-age homes; except for the fact that more people die in colleges.”

Bob Dylan

Playboy Interview (February 1966)

People , Age , Home

“Truth is an arrow, and the gate is narrow that it passes through.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), When He Returns

Truth

“Love is all there is, it makes the world go 'round
Love and only love, it can’t be denied
No matter what you think about it
You just won’t be able to do without it
Take a tip from one who's tried”

Bob Dylan

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

Love , World , Thinking

“The one was Texas medicine. the other was just railroad gin. And, like a fool, I mixed them and it strangled up my mind and now people just get uglier and I have no sense of time.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again

People , Fools , Sense , Time

“When I first heard Elvis's voice I just knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody and nobody was going to be my boss. He is the deity supreme of rock and roll religion as it exists in today's form. Hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail. I think for a long time that freedom to me was Elvis singing 'Blue Moon of Kentucky.”

Bob Dylan

I thank God for Elvis.
US magazine (24 August 1987); on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Elvis Presley's death, as reported in Bob Dylan: Performing Artist 1986–1990 and Beyond, Mind out of Time (2009)

God , Religion , Thinking , Freedom

“A woman like you should be at home. That's where you belong, taking care of somebody nice who don't know how to do you wrong.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Sweetheart Like You

Home

“I like to do just like the rest,
I like my sugar sweet, but guarding fumes and making haste,
it ain't my cup of meat.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Self Portrait (1970), Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)

“I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of.”

Bob Dylan

Source: Chronicles: Vol. One (2004), p. 115

“It ain't no use a-talking to me
It's just the same as talking to you”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964), I Shall Be Free No. 10

“The pump don't work
'Cause the vandals took the handles”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Subterranean Homesick Blues

“You will start out standing, proud to steal her anything she sees, but you will wind up peeking through her keyhole down upon your knees.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), She Belongs to Me

“Bob Dylan: The media is all-pervasive. What can a writer think of to write that you don't see every day in a newspaper or on television?
Interviewer: …Do you think that TV and the media have killed poetry and literature?
Bob Dylan: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. … What's a writer to do if every idea is exposed in the media before he can get to it or let it evolve? What's a writer gonna write about? … We're living in a science-fiction world. We're living in a world that Disney has conquered. Disney's science fiction. Theme parks, trendy streets, it's all science fiction. So I would say, if a writer has got something to say, he'll have to do it in that–
Interviewer: Outside of the real world?
Bob Dylan: There is a real world. Science fiction has become the real world. Whether we realize it or not, it has.”

Bob Dylan

The Rome Press Conference (23 July 2001)

World , Literature , Idea , Thinking

“The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Visions of Johanna

“You lose yourself, you reappear
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
Alone you stand with nobody near
When a trembling distant voice, unclear
Startles your sleeping ear to hear
That somebody thinks they really found you”

Bob Dylan

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

Fear , Thinking , Sleep , Distant