Bob Dylan Quotes

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“There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief…”

“Don't follow leaders
Watch the parkin' meters”

“… in this ocean of hours I'm all the time drinking…”

“Thinking of a series of dreams
Where the time and the tempo fly
And there's no exit in any direction
'Cept the one that you can't see with your eyes”

“Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land, where justice is a game.”

“The longer you live, the better you get.”

“Well, I try my best to be just like I am,
But everybody wants you to be just like them,
They sing while you slave and I just get bored”

“I didn’t really have any ambition at all. I was born very far from where I’m supposed to be, and so, I’m on my way home, you know?”

“Beauty walks a razor's edge, someday I'll make it mine.”

“She's a hypnotist collector; you are a walking antique…”

“This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.”

“Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship. Ain't that just like my heart, babe. When you kissed my lips?”

“Don't get up gentlemen. I'm only passing through!”

“Don't ask me nothin' about nothin'. I just might tell you the truth.”

“The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The new order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.”

“I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you.”

“You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free”

“I just don't hear anyone else making the music I'm making in my head, so I'll have to do it myself.”

“The Harmonica is the world’s best-selling musical instrument. You’re welcome.”

“I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road.”

“Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.”

“You been down to the bottom with a bad man, babe
But you're back were you belong”

“Can you cook and sew, make flowers grow, do you understand my pain? Are you willing to risk it all or is your love in vain?”

“If my thought-dreams could be seen/ They'd probably put my head in a guillotine.”

“In the fury of the moment I can see the Master's hand
In every leaf that trembles, in every grain of sand”

“Who am I helping, what am I breaking, what am I giving, what am I taking?”

“Last night I danced with a stranger, but she just reminded me you were the one.”

“If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show you the scars.”

“We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it.”

“There is nothing so stable as change.”

“Twenty years of schoolin'
And they put you on the day shift”

“Yes, and only if my own true love was waiting
If I could hear his heart softly pounding
Yes, and only if he was lying by me
Would I lie in my bed once again.”

“Little red wagon, little red bike, I ain’t no monkey but I know what I like.”

“Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.”

“People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.”

“Old lady judges watch people in pairs
Limited in sex, they dare
To push fake morals, insult and stare
While money doesn't talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares
Propaganda, all is phony.”

“Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it's available. When the cost comes down, look out!”

“If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.”

“I wanted to read all these books, but I would have to have been in a rest home or something to do that (p. 37,).”

“It's not dark yet, but it's getting there…”

“Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride
You will not die, it’s not poison”

“they say every man needs protection, they say every man must fall.
yet I swear I see my reflection, some place high above this wall….. and someday I shall be released.”

“A million faces at my feet but all I see are dark eyes.”

“I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.”

“You're born, you know, the wrong names, wrong parents. I mean, that happens. You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.”

“Can you please crawl out your window? Use your arms and your legs, it won't ruin you”

“It's east to see without lookin' too far that not much is really sacred.”

“If you're looking to get silly, you better go back to from where you came. because the cops don't need you and man they expect the same.”

“I've been trying to get as far away from myself as I can”