Bob Dylan citations

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“Thinking of a series of dreams
Where the time and the tempo fly
And there's no exit in any direction
'Cept the one that you can't see with your eyes”

“Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land, where justice is a game.”

“The longer you live, the better you get.”

“Well, I try my best to be just like I am,
But everybody wants you to be just like them,
They sing while you slave and I just get bored”

“I didn’t really have any ambition at all. I was born very far from where I’m supposed to be, and so, I’m on my way home, you know?”

“Beauty walks a razor's edge, someday I'll make it mine.”

“She's a hypnotist collector; you are a walking antique…”

“I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.”

“This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.”

“Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship. Ain't that just like my heart, babe. When you kissed my lips?”

“Don't get up gentlemen. I'm only passing through!”

“Don't ask me nothin' about nothin'. I just might tell you the truth.”

“The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The new order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.”

“I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you.”

“Some times I think this whole world
Is one big prison yeard
Some of us are prisoners
The rest of us are guards”

“You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free”

“I just don't hear anyone else making the music I'm making in my head, so I'll have to do it myself.”

“The Harmonica is the world’s best-selling musical instrument. You’re welcome.”

“I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road.”

“Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.”

“You been down to the bottom with a bad man, babe
But you're back were you belong”

“Can you cook and sew, make flowers grow, do you understand my pain? Are you willing to risk it all or is your love in vain?”

“Everything passes,
Everything changes,
Just do what you think you should do.”

“If my thought-dreams could be seen/ They'd probably put my head in a guillotine.”

“In the fury of the moment I can see the Master's hand
In every leaf that trembles, in every grain of sand”

“Who am I helping, what am I breaking, what am I giving, what am I taking?”

“Last night I danced with a stranger, but she just reminded me you were the one.”

“If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show you the scars.”

“We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it.”