I thank God for Elvis.
US magazine (24 August 1987); on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Elvis Presley's death, as reported in Bob Dylan: Performing Artist 1986–1990 and Beyond, Mind out of Time (2009)
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Bob Dylan: Citations en anglais
Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Sweetheart Like You
Song lyrics, Self Portrait (1970), Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
Source: Chronicles: Vol. One (2004), p. 115
“It ain't no use a-talking to me
It's just the same as talking to you”
Song lyrics, Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964), I Shall Be Free No. 10
“The pump don't work
'Cause the vandals took the handles”
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Subterranean Homesick Blues
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), She Belongs to Me
The Rome Press Conference (23 July 2001)
“The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face.”
Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Visions of Johanna
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
“She left one too many a boy behind
He committed suicide”
Song lyrics, The Bootleg Series Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962–1964 (2010), Gypsy Lou (recorded 1963)
“And if you hear vague traces of skipping reels of rhyme…”
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Mr. Tambourine Man
“We may not be able to defeat these swine, but we don't have to join them.”
As quoted in Kingdom of Fear (2003) by Hunter S. Thompson
Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), You're a Big Girl Now
“Drownin' in the poison, got not future got no past.”
Song lyrics, Love and Theft (2001), Mississippi
“The ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming.”
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Mr. Tambourine Man
Song lyrics, Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964), Motorpsycho Nightmare
Song lyrics, Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964), Chimes of Freedom
“Some one else is speaking with my mouth, but I'm listening only to my heart.”
Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), I and I
Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Union Sundown
“I helped her out of a jam, I guess, but I used a little too much force…”
Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Tangled Up In Blue
Source: Chronicles: Vol. One (2004), p. 114
“It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If you don't know by now”
Compare: "It ain't no use to sit and sigh now, darlin." Paul Clayton, Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons (When I'm Gone).
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
“I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.”
Song lyrics, Biograph (1985), Up to Me (recorded 1974)
Song lyrics, Modern Times (2006), Someday Baby
Interview by Hubert Saal, "Dylan is Back," Newsweek (26 February 1968)
“They say in your father's house there's many mansions; each one of 'em got a fireproof floor.”
Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Sweetheart Like You
“Even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have to stand naked”
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
“He’s sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all”
Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Visions of Johanna
“They tell you "Time is money," as if your life was worth its weight in gold.”
Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), When You Gonna Wake Up
