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“I've always been the kind of person who doesn't like to trespass, but sometimes you just find yourself over the line.”

Bob Dylan

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

“I've been deceived by the clown inside of me. I thought that he was righteous but he's vain.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Biograph (1985), Abandoned Love (recorded 1975)

“I'm gonna baptize you in fire so you can sin no more.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Love and Theft (2001), Bye and Bye

“Get jailed, jump bail
Join the army, if you fail”

Bob Dylan

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

“The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind.”

Bob Dylan

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

“I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall

“The road out would be treacherous, and I didn’t know where it would lead but I followed it anyway. It was a strange world ahead that would unfold, a thunderhead of a world with jagged lightning edges. Many got it wrong and never did get it right. I went straight into it. It was wide open. One thing for sure, not only was it not run by God, but it wasn’t run by the devil either.”

Bob Dylan

Source: Chronicles: Vol. One (2004), p. 293

“Don't wanna judge nobody — don't wanna be judged.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), Do Right to Me Baby

“She is good to me
There's nothing she doesn't see
She knows where I’d like to be
But it doesn’t matter…
I want you”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), I Want You

“Money doesn't talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares
Propaganda, all is phony”

Bob Dylan

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

“Yes, and how many years can a mountain exist before it is washed to the sea?”

Bob Dylan

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

“Ring them bells Sweet Martha
For the poor man's son
Ring them bells so the world will know
That God is one
Oh the shepherd is asleep
Where the willows weep
And the mountains are filled with lost sheep.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Oh Mercy (1989), Ring Them Bells

“So if you're travelin' in the north country fair,
Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline,
Remember me to one who lives there.
She once was a true love of mine.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Girl from the North Country

“Of war and peace the truth just twist, its curfew gull it glides.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Gates of Eden

“They're selling postcards of the hanging”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Desolation Row

“I couldn’t see what you could show me
Your scarf had kept your mouth well hid”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)

“You got innocent men in jail, your insane asylums are filled.”

Bob Dylan

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

“It's not aimed at anyone, it's just escapin' on the run”

Bob Dylan

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

“Up on Housing Project Hill, it's either fortune or fame. You must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues

“What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening—all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke.”

Bob Dylan

Source: Chronicles: Vol. One (2004), p. 49