Bob Dylan idézet

oldal 9

„Ne kritizáld azt, amit nem tudsz megérteni.”

„És addig állok az óceánon, amíg süllyedni nem kezdek.”

„Néha nem elég tudni, mit jelentenek a dolgok, néha azt is tudni kell, mit nem jelentenek a dolgok.”

„Elfogadom a káoszt. Nem tudom, a káosz elfogad-e engem?”

„Én csak önmagam lehetek - bárki is legyen az.”

„Gyújts egy új gyufát, kezdj bele egy új változásba.”

„Sokszor azt álmodom, hogy a Függetlenség Napján nyilvánosan villamosszékbe ültetnek és kivégeznek.”

„Nem szeretnék sem Bach, sem Mozart, sem Tolsztoj lenni, mert õk már mind meghaltak…”

„Istenem, hogy örülök, hogy nem én vagyok én.”

„Ismertnek lenni nagy teher, Jézust is azért feszítették keresztre, mert ismertté lett. Én inkább eltűnök.”

„Egyszerűen nem hallom, hogy bárki azt a zenét játszaná, ami a fejemben van, úgyhogy nekem kell játszanom.”

„Az igazi nagy festmények nem a múzeumokba valók. A múzeumok temetők. A képeket az éttermek, az olcsó üzletek, a benzinkutak és a férfivécék falára kell akasztani.”

„Nincs semmi, ami annyira állandó lenne, mint a változás.”

„A sikeres ember az, aki reggel felkel, este lefekszik, és közben azt csinálja, amihez kedve van.”

„A pénz nem beszél, hanem káromkodik.”

„Kibaszottul hangosan játszd!”

„Nem lehetsz egyszerre bölcs és szerelmes.”

„Senki sem szabad, még a madarak is az éghez vannak láncolva.”

„Ó, az élet fája növekszik, ahol a szellem soha nem hal meg, és az üdvösség fényes sugara ragyog a sötét és üres égbolton.”

„De ahhoz, hogy a törvényen kívül élj, őszintének kell lenned.”

“Don't know how it all got started, I don't know what they do with their lives…”

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

“Ev'rybody's in despair,
Ev'ry girl and boy
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here,
Ev'rybody's gonna jump for joy.”

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

“It is not he or she or them or it
That you belong to.”

“You ain't worth the blood that runs in your veins.”

“Your debutante knows what you need, but I know what you want.”

“Visions of your chestnut mare shoot through my head and are makin' me see stars.”

“Steal a little and they throw you in jail; steal a lot and they make you king.”

“I'm inconsistent, even to myself.”

“We always did feel the same, we just saw it from a different point of view…”

“Your mind is your temple, keep it beautiful and free. Don't let an egg get laid in it by something you can't see.”

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

“You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way.”

“You go watch the geek, who immediately walks up to you when he hears you speak, and says, how does it feel to be such a freak?, and you say, impossible as he hands you a bone.”

“They'll kick you when you're up and knock you when you're down.”

“The enemy is subtle. How be it we're deceived? When the truth's in our hearts and we still don't believe.”

“You don't need my autograph. If you needed it, I'd give it to you.”

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

“Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain”

“Just give to me my gravestone
With it clearly carved upon:
"I'm a long time a-comin'
An' I'll be a long time gone"”

“I said, "You know they refused Jesus, too"
He said, "You're not Him"”

“They already expect you to just give a check to tax-deductible charity organization.”

“I wanted just a song to sing, and there came a certain point where I couldn't sing anything. So I had to write what I wanted to sing 'cos nobody else was writing what I wanted to sing.”

“I heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world.”

“The words fill my head, and fall to the floor, that if God's on our side, he'll stop the next war.”

“My sense of rhyme used to be more involved in my songwriting than it is… Still staying in the unconscious frame of mind, you can pull yourself out and throw up two rhymes first and work it back. You get the rhymes first and work it back and then see if you can make it make sense in another kind of way. You can still stay in the unconscious frame of mind to pull it off, which is the state of mind you have to be in anyway.”

“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”

“Greed and lust I can understand, but I can't understand the values of definition and confinement. Definition destroys. Besides, there's nothing definite in this world.”