Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Idiot Wind
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Bob Dylan Quotes
“I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's.”
On the influence of Jack Kerouac on him, as quoted Grasping for the Wind : The Search for Meaning in the 20th Century (2001) by John W. Whitehead
“For man has invented his doom; first step was touching the moon.”
Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), License to Kill
“You can't win with a losing hand”
Song lyrics, The Essential Bob Dylan (2000), Things Have Changed (recorded 1999)
Song lyrics, Self Portrait (1970), Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), If You See Her, Say Hello
Song lyrics, Biograph (1985), Up to Me (recorded 1974)
“Take care of all your memories. said my friend Mick, For you cannot relive them.”
Song lyrics, The Basement Tapes (1975), Open the Door, Homer (recorded 1967)
Variant: Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
“I'll eat when I'm hungry, drink when I'm dry”
Song lyrics, Time Out of Mind (1997), Standing In The Doorway
Compare: "But yours will be the rulership of nations, / remember Roman, these will be your arts: / to teach the ways of peace to those you conquer, / to spare defeated peoples, tame the proud." The Aeneid of Virgil: A Verse Translation by Allen Mandelbaum, 6.1134–1137.
Song lyrics, Love and Theft (2001), Lonesome Day Blues
Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Jokerman
Referring to the first Woody Guthrie record he ever heard, p. 243
Chronicles: Vol. One (2004)
“My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.”
The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bob-dylan-talks-a-raw-and-extensive-first-rolling-stone-interview-19691129 (29 November 1969)
“Man is opposed to fair play: he wants it all, and he wants it his way.”
Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), License to Kill
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Masters of War
“You may call me Bobby; you may call me Zimmy…”
Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), Gotta Serve Somebody
“They'd like to drive me from this town; they don't want me around, 'cause I believe in you.”
Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), I Believe in You
“Let me feel your love one more time before I abandon it.”
Song lyrics, Biograph (1985), Abandoned Love (recorded 1975)
Song lyrics, The Essential Bob Dylan (2000), Things Have Changed (recorded 1999)
As quoted in "Cosmo Listens to Records" http://www.mediafire.com/view/za1l4i1dftotwg9/.png by Nat Hentoff, in Cosmopolitan (November 1965)
“Love is so simple, to quote a phrase; you've known it all the time, I'm learnin' it these days.”
Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), You're a Big Girl Now
Letter sent to the ECLC after Dylan received the Tom Paine Award at the Bill of Rights dinner on December 13, 1963, as reported in "Mr. Dylan Regrets" http://www.hotpress.com/Bob-Dylan/music/interviews/Mr-Dylan-Regrets/2836632.html by Niall Stokes, Hot Press (11 November 2005)
“I couldn’t see when it started snowin’
Your voice was all that I heard”
Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)
Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), You're a Big Girl Now
Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Visions of Johanna
“Nobody sees through him — no, not even the chief of police.”
Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Man of Peace
Song lyrics, The Basement Tapes (1975), This Wheel's on Fire (recorded in 1967)
Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), Precious Angel
“But I’ll know my song well before I start singin’.”
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall
“I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings
And I've never been too impressed”
Song lyrics, Street-Legal (1978), Is Your Love In Vain?
Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Tangled Up In Blue
“What looks large from a distance, close up ain't never that big.”
Song lyrics, Empire Burlesque (1985), Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love)
“Politician's got on his jogging shoes, he must be running for office, got no time to lose”
Song lyrics, Love and Theft (2001), Summer Days
Song lyrics, Knocked Out Loaded (1986), Brownsville Girl (with Sam Shepard)
“It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall.”
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall
Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Like a Rolling Stone
Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
“If I catch my opponents ever sleepin', I'll just slaughter 'em where they lie.”
Song lyrics, Modern Times (2006), Ain't Talkin
"Advice for Geraldine on Her Miscellaneous" (1964)
Song lyrics, Together Through Life (2009), I Feel A Change Coming On
“I'd throw all the guns and the tanks in the sea, for they are mistakes of a past history.”
Song lyrics, The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991 (1991), Let Me Die In My Footsteps (recorded 1962)
“Come in", she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm.”
Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Shelter from the Storm
“Stay, lady, stay. Stay while the night is still ahead.”
Song lyrics, Nashville Skyline (1969), Lay Lady Lay
Dylan Revisited http://europe.newsweek.com/dylan-revisited-174056?rm=eu, Newsweek (1997)
“I know she ain't you, but she's here, and she's got that dark rhythm in her soul.”
Song lyrics, Knocked Out Loaded (1986), Brownsville Girl (with Sam Shepard)
“I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.”
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Maggie's Farm
“And something is happening here, but you don't know what it is, do you Mr. Jones?”
Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Ballad of a Thin Man
“If the Bible is right the world will explode”
Song lyrics, The Essential Bob Dylan (2000), Things Have Changed (recorded 1999)
Song lyrics, Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964), My Back Pages
