Bob Dylan: Likeness (page 2)

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“Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Make everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It's easy to see without looking too far
That not much is really sacred”

Bob Dylan

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

God , Color , Christ

“I am hanging in the balance of the reality of man
Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Shot of Love (1981), Every Grain Of Sand
Variant: "I am hanging in the balance of a perfect, finished plan" (The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1–3)

Reality

“You see, you're just like me. I hope you're satisfied.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again

Hope

“I didn't go to classes. I just didn't feel like it.”

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No Direction Home (2005)

Feeling

“Well, I see you got your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat
Yes, I see you got your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat
Well, you must tell me, baby
How your head feels under somethin' like that
Under your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat”

Bob Dylan

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

Feeling , Baby , Box

“You sound like a hillbilly; We want folk singers here.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Bob Dylan (1962), Talking New York

“I don't call myself a poet because I don't like the word.”

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan Interview http://www.interferenza.com/bcs/interw/65-aug.htm by Nora Ephron & Susan Edmiston (1965)

“I’m going out of my mind, oh, oh; with a pain that stops and starts; like a corkscrew to my heart; Ever since we’ve been apart”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), You're a Big Girl Now

Pain , Heart

“I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's.”

Bob Dylan

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

Life , Change , Reading

“I put one on the turntable and when the needle dropped, I was stunned — didn't know if I was stoned or straight… All these songs together, one after another made my head spin. It made me want to gasp. It was like the land parted.”

Bob Dylan

Referring to the first Woody Guthrie record he ever heard, p. 243
Chronicles: Vol. One (2004)

Parting

“They'd like to drive me from this town; they don't want me around, 'cause I believe in you.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), I Believe in You

“Feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet… Putting her in a wheel barrow and wheeling her down the street.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, The Essential Bob Dylan (2000), Things Have Changed (recorded 1999)

Love , Feeling

“Louise she's all right she's just near'
She's delicate and seems like veneer'
But she just makes it all too concise and too clear'
That Johanna's not here”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Visions of Johanna

“Hey, hey, Woody Guthrie, I wrote you a song,
'Bout a funny ol' world that's a-comin' along
Seems sick an' it's hungry, it's tired an' it's torn
It looks like it's a-dyin' an' it's hardly been born”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Bob Dylan (1962), Song to Woody

World

“In the dark I hear the night birds call
I can feel a lover's breath
I sleep in the kitchen with my feet in the hall
Sleep is like a temporary death”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Modern Times (2006), Workingman's Blues #2

Death , Feeling , Lovers , Bird

“And every one of them words rang true and glowed like burnin' coal. Pourin' off of every page, like it was written in my soul from me to you…”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Tangled Up In Blue

Soul

“She takes just like a woman, yes she does
She makes love just like a woman, yes she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Just Like A Woman

Love , Making love , Girl

“If the songs are dreamed, it's like my voice is coming out of their dream.”

Bob Dylan

Quoted in Robert Shelton's No Direction Home (1986), p. 281

Dreams

“I know it looks like I'm moving, but I'm standing still
Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb
I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Time Out of Mind (1997), Not Dark Yet

“Well I tried my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, The Essential Bob Dylan (2000), Maggie's Farm