“You can't be wise and in love at the same time.”
No Direction Home (2005)
Bob Dylan: 523 citations0 J'aime
Bob Dylan: Citations en anglais
Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Like a Rolling Stone
Source: da Like a Rolling Stone, n.° 1
Contexte: Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse. When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose. You're invisible now. You've got no secrets to conceal.
“They’ll stone ya and then they’ll say, “good luck””
Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
“But to live outside the law, you must be honest.”
Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Absolutely Sweet Marie
Variante: But to live outside the law, you must be honest.
Source: da Absolutely Sweet Marie, n.° 11
“Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain”
Song lyrics, Time Out of Mind (1997), Not Dark Yet
“The sun's not yellow, it's chicken.”
Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Tombstone Blues
Variante: The sun's not yellow, its chicken!
Source: da Tombstone Blues, 1965
“People are crazy and times are strange… I used to care but things have changed”
Song lyrics, The Essential Bob Dylan (2000), Things Have Changed (recorded 1999)
Variante: I used to care, but things have changed.
Contexte: People are crazy and times are strange
I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range,
I used to care, but things have changed.
Variante: A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
“We're idiots, babe. It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves.”
Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Idiot Wind
Contexte: Idiot wind, blowing through the buttons of our coats, blowing through the letters that we wrote.
Idiot wind, blowing through the dust upon our shelves,
We're idiots, babe. It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves.
“So many things that we never will undo
I know you're sorry, I'm sorry too.”
Song lyrics, Love and Theft (2001), Mississippi
Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Positively 4th Street
Playboy Interview http://www.interferenza.com/bcs/interw/play78.htm (1978)
Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), When You Gonna Wake Up
“I can't help it if I'm lucky.”
Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Idiot Wind
“I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
I said that.”
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Talkin' World War III Blues
Source: Lyrics:1962 2001
Contexte: Half of the people can be part right all of the time,
Some of the people can be all right part of the time,
But all the people can't be all right all the time.
I think Abraham Lincoln said that.
I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
I said that.
“The future for me is already a thing of the past.”
Song lyrics, Love and Theft (2001), Bye and Bye
Source: Bob Dylan - Love and Theft: Piano/Vocal/Guitar
Source: Chronicles: Vol. One (2004), p. 22
Contexte: I was heading for the fantastic lights. No doubt about it. Could it be that I was being deceived? Not likely. I don't think I had enough imagination to be deceived; had no false hope, either. I'd come from a long ways off and had started from a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.
