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“Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Knocked Out Loaded (1986), Maybe Someday

“People starving and thirsting; grain elevators are bursting. You know, it costs more to store the food than it do to give it.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), Slow Train

“There is one thing I know though I'm younger than you
Even Jesus would not forgive what you do”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Masters of War

“You go to Sodom and Gomorrah, but what do you care? Ain't nobody there would want to marry your sister.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Jokerman

“My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.”

Bob Dylan

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)

“do Not create anything, it will be
misinterpreted. it will not change.
it will follow you the rest of your life.”

Bob Dylan

"Advice for Geraldine on Her Miscellaneous" (1964)

“And something is happening here, but you don't know what it is, do you Mr. Jones?”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Ballad of a Thin Man

“All I really want to do is, baby, be friends with you.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964), All I Really Want To Do

“Man thinks 'cause he rules the earth, he can do with it as he please. And if things don't change soon, he will.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), License to Kill

“Freedom just around the corner for you, but with truth so far off, what good will it do?”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Jokerman

“Sometimes you say things in songs even if there's a small chance of them being true. And sometimes you say things that have nothing to do with the truth of what you want to say and sometimes you say things that everyone knows to be true. Then again, at the same time, you're thinking that the only truth on earth is that there is no truth on it. Whatever you are saying, you're saying in a ricky-tick way. There's never time to reflect. You stitched and pressed and packed and drove, is what you did.”

Bob Dylan

Source: Chronicles: Vol. One (2004), p. 220

“He's a pinboy. He also wears suspenders. He's a real person. You know him, but not by that name… I saw him come into the room one night and he looked like a camel. He proceeded to put his eyes in his pocket. I asked this guy who he was and he said, "That's Mr. Jones." Then I asked this cat, "Doesn't he do anything but put his eyes in his pocket?" And he told me, "He puts his nose on the ground."”

Bob Dylan

It's all there, it's a true story.
When asked about the meaning of the song "Ballad of a Thin Man" during a 1965 interview.

“Like Shakespeare, I too am often occupied with the pursuit of my creative endeavors and dealing with all aspects of life's mundane matters. "Who are the best musicians for these songs?" "Am I recording in the right studio?" "Is this song in the right key?" Some things never change, even in 400 years. Not once have I ever had the time to ask myself, "Are my songs literature?" So, I do thank the Swedish Academy, both for taking the time to consider that very question, and, ultimately, for providing such a wonderful answer.”

Bob Dylan

Nobel Banquet Speech

“Love is all there is, it makes the world go 'round
Love and only love, it can’t be denied
No matter what you think about it
You just won’t be able to do without it
Take a tip from one who's tried”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Nashville Skyline (1969), I Threw It All Away

“A woman like you should be at home. That's where you belong, taking care of somebody nice who don't know how to do you wrong.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Sweetheart Like You

“I like to do just like the rest,
I like my sugar sweet, but guarding fumes and making haste,
it ain't my cup of meat.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Self Portrait (1970), Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)

“Bob Dylan: The media is all-pervasive. What can a writer think of to write that you don't see every day in a newspaper or on television?
Interviewer: …Do you think that TV and the media have killed poetry and literature?
Bob Dylan: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. … What's a writer to do if every idea is exposed in the media before he can get to it or let it evolve? What's a writer gonna write about? … We're living in a science-fiction world. We're living in a world that Disney has conquered. Disney's science fiction. Theme parks, trendy streets, it's all science fiction. So I would say, if a writer has got something to say, he'll have to do it in that–
Interviewer: Outside of the real world?
Bob Dylan: There is a real world. Science fiction has become the real world. Whether we realize it or not, it has.”

Bob Dylan

The Rome Press Conference (23 July 2001)

“Now at midnight all the agents
And the superhuman crew
Come out and round up everyone
That knows more than they do”

Bob Dylan

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

“Do you ever wonder just what God requires? You think he's just an errand boy to satisfy your wandering desires.”

Bob Dylan

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