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“She left one too many a boy behind
He committed suicide”

Song lyrics, The Bootleg Series Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962–1964 (2010), Gypsy Lou (recorded 1963)

“And if you hear vague traces of skipping reels of rhyme…”

Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Mr. Tambourine Man

“We may not be able to defeat these swine, but we don't have to join them.”

As quoted in Kingdom of Fear (2003) by Hunter S. Thompson

“A change in the weather is known to be extreme; but what's the sense in changing horses in mid-stream?”

Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), You're a Big Girl Now

“Drownin' in the poison, got not future got no past.”

Song lyrics, Love and Theft (2001), Mississippi

“The ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming.”

Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Mr. Tambourine Man

“I had to say something to strike him very weird so I yelled out "I like Fidel Castro and his beard."”

Song lyrics, Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964), Motorpsycho Nightmare

“Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail,
The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder,
That the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breeze
Leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder
Striking for the gentle, striking for the kind,
Striking for the guardians and protectors of the mind,
An’ the poet and the painter far behind his rightful time
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.”

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

“Some one else is speaking with my mouth, but I'm listening only to my heart.”

Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), I and I

“It's sundown on the union that was made in the USA. Sure was a good idea till greed got in the way.”

Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Union Sundown

“I helped her out of a jam, I guess, but I used a little too much force…”

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

“I had been in a motorcycle accident and I'd been hurt, but I recovered. Truth was that I wanted to get out of the rat race. Having children changed my life and segregated me from just about everybody and everything that was going on. Outside of my family, nothing held any real interest for me and I was seeing everything through different glasses.”

Source: Chronicles: Vol. One (2004), p. 114

“It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If you don't know by now”

Compare: "It ain't no use to sit and sigh now, darlin." Paul Clayton, Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons (When I'm Gone).
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

“I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.”

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

“Take your clothes, put 'em in a sack. You goin' down the road, baby, and you cant come back. Someday baby, you ain't gonna worry po' me any more.”

Song lyrics, Modern Times (2006), Someday Baby

“I used to think that myself and my songs were the same thing. But I don't believe that any more. There's myself and there's my song, which I hope is everybody's song.”

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

“They say in your father's house there's many mansions; each one of 'em got a fireproof floor.”

Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Sweetheart Like You

“Even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have to stand naked”

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

“He’s sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all”

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

“They tell you "Time is money," as if your life was worth its weight in gold.”

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