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Bob Dylan Quotes
Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), Slow Train
“It sure do bother me to see my loved ones turning into puppets.”
Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), Slow Train
Playboy Interview http://www.interferenza.com/bcs/interw/66-jan.htm (February 1966)
Compare: "I saw you riding 'round in your brand new automobile/ Yes I saw you ridin' around, babe, in your brand new automobile/ Yes you was sitting there happy with your handsome driver at the wheel/ In your brand new automobile." Lightnin' Hopkins, Automobile Blues.
Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
“There's only one step down from here, baby. It's called the Land of Permanent Bliss.”
Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Sweetheart Like You
“Wheels on fire, rolling down the road, best notify my next of kin, this wheel shall explode!”
Song lyrics, The Basement Tapes (1975), This Wheel's on Fire (recorded in 1967)
“My clothes are wet, tight on my skin/but not as tight as the corner I painted myself in.”
Song lyrics, Love and Theft (2001), Mississippi
“I live in another world, where life and death are memorized.”
Song lyrics, Empire Burlesque (1985), Dark Eyes
“Shedding off one more layer of skin, keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within.”
Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Jokerman
Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), Precious Angel
Song lyrics, Knocked Out Loaded (1986), Brownsville Girl (with Sam Shepard)
“Let me die in my footsteps before I go under the ground.”
Song lyrics, The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991 (1991), Let Me Die In My Footsteps (recorded 1962)
“The only thing we knew for sure about Henry Porter was that his name wasn't Henry Porter.”
Song lyrics, Knocked Out Loaded (1986), Brownsville Girl (with Sam Shepard)
“An' though the rules of the road have been lodged
It's only people's games that you got to dodge”
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Tombstone Blues
“You sound like a hillbilly; We want folk singers here.”
Song lyrics, Bob Dylan (1962), Talking New York
“I'm sittin' on my watch so I can be on time.”
Song lyrics, Love and Theft (2001), Bye and Bye
“Just how much abuse will you be able to take? Well, there's no way to tell by the first kiss.”
Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Sweetheart Like You
“Don't know how it all got started, I don't know what they do with their lives…”
Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Tangled Up In Blue
“Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do.”
Song lyrics, Knocked Out Loaded (1986), Maybe Someday
Song lyrics, Self Portrait (1970), Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
“I don't call myself a poet because I don't like the word.”
Bob Dylan Interview http://www.interferenza.com/bcs/interw/65-aug.htm by Nora Ephron & Susan Edmiston (1965)
“It is not he or she or them or it
That you belong to.”
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
“You ain't worth the blood that runs in your veins.”
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Masters of War
“Your debutante knows what you need, but I know what you want.”
Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
“Visions of your chestnut mare shoot through my head and are makin' me see stars.”
Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Idiot Wind
“Steal a little and they throw you in jail; steal a lot and they make you king.”
Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Sweetheart Like You
“I'm inconsistent, even to myself.”
Quoted in "POP/JAZZ; A Wiser Voice Blowin' In the Autumn Wind" http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/28/arts/pop-jazz-a-wiser-voice-blowin-in-the-autumn-wind.html by Jon Pareles, The New York Times (28 September 1997)
“We always did feel the same, we just saw it from a different point of view…”
Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Tangled Up In Blue
Song lyrics, Under the Red Sky (1990), T.V. Talking Song
Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), Slow Train
“You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way.”
Song lyrics, Love and Theft (2001), Mississippi
Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Ballad of a Thin Man
“They'll kick you when you're up and knock you when you're down.”
Song lyrics, Under the Red Sky (1990), Hard Times In New York Town (recorded 1961)
Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), Precious Angel
“You don't need my autograph. If you needed it, I'd give it to you.”
No Direction Home (2005)
“There is one thing I know though I'm younger than you
Even Jesus would not forgive what you do”
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Masters of War
“Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain”
Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Just Like A Woman
Song lyrics, The Bootleg Series Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962–1964 (2010), Long Time Gone (recorded 1962)
“I said, "You know they refused Jesus, too"
He said, "You're not Him"”
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
“They already expect you to just give a check to tax-deductible charity organization.”
Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Ballad of a Thin Man
Interview http://www.interferenza.com/bcs/interw/84-jul30.htm with Bert Kleinman (30 July 1984). Cf. C. S. Lewis: "People won't write the books I want, so I have to do it for myself."
“I heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world.”
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall
“The words fill my head, and fall to the floor, that if God's on our side, he'll stop the next war.”
Song lyrics, The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964), With God On Our Side
Bob Dylan: The Song Talk Interview http://www.interferenza.com/bcs/interw/1991zollo.htm by Paul Zollo (1991)
Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), You're a Big Girl Now
Neil Hickey TV Guide interview http://www.punkhart.com/dylan/interviews/sep_1976.html (11 September 1976)
