Playboy Interview http://www.interferenza.com/bcs/interw/play78.htm (1978)
Bob Dylan: Cytaty po angielsku (strona 2)
Bob Dylan jest amerykański muzyk rockowy, wokalista, gitarzysta, kompozytor, poeta. Cytaty po angielsku.
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Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), When You Gonna Wake Up
“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
Źródło: Lyrics:1962 2001
Kontekst: 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
Źródło: Bob Dylan - Love and Theft: Piano/Vocal/Guitar
Źródło: Chronicles: Vol. One (2004), p. 22
Kontekst: 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.
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
“It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.”
On the influence of Jack Kerouac, as quoted in Jack Kerouac (2007) by Alison Behnke, p. 100
Kontekst: Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.
“For the loser now will be later to win”
Song lyrics, The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964), The Times They Are A-Changin'
Kontekst: Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won’t come again
And don’t speak too soon
For the wheel’s still in spin
And there’s no tellin’ who that it’s naming.’
For the loser now will be later to win
“I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.”
Quoted in Robert Shelton's No Direction Home https://books.google.com/books?id=-IefAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22I+think+a+poet+is+anybody+who+wouldn%27t+call+himself+a+poet.%22&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22I+think+a+poet+is+anybody+who+wouldn%27t+call+himself+a+poet.+Anybody+who+could+possibly+call+himself+a+poet+just+cannot+be+a+poet.%22 (1986), p. 353
Kontekst: I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet. Anybody who could possibly call himself a poet just cannot be a poet.
“Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon”
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
Kontekst: Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying
“Look out kid
It's somethin' you did
God knows when
But you're doin' it again”
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Subterranean Homesick Blues
Kontekst: Johnny's in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinking about the government
The man in the trenchcoat
Badge out, laid off
Says he's got a bad cough
Wants to get it paid off
Look out kid
It's somethin' you did
God knows when
But you're doin' it again
Bob Dylan: The Rolling Stone Interview http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-rolling-stone-interview-bob-dylan-19780126 by Jonathan Cott (26 January 1978)
“People call, say beware doll, you're bound to fall, you thought they were all, kiddin you.”
Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Like a Rolling Stone
Kontekst: Once upon a time you dressed so fine, threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you. People call, say beware doll, you're bound to fall, you thought they were all, kiddin you.
Rolling Stone #1078 (14 May 2009), p. 45
Kontekst: It's peculiar and unnerving in a way to see so many young people walking around with cellphones and iPods in their ears and so wrapped up in media and video games. It robs them of their self-identity. It's a shame to see them so tuned out to real life. Of course they are free to do that, as if that's got anything to do with freedom. The cost of liberty is high, and young people should understand that before they start spending their life with all those gadgets.
“If you take whatever there is to the song away—the beat, the melody—I could still recite it.”
Interview with Paul Robbins (March, 1965)
Kontekst: I find it easy to write songs. I been writing songs for a long time and the words to the songs aren't written out just for the paper; they're written as you can read it, you dig. If you take whatever there is to the song away—the beat, the melody—I could still recite it. I see nothing wrong with songs you can't do that with either—songs that, if you took the beat and the melody away, they wouldn't stand up because they're not supposed to do that, you know. Songs are songs.
“I ain't saying you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don't mind”
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
Kontekst: I ain't saying you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don't mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don't think twice, it's all right.