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Bob Dylan Inspirational Quotes (540)

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The confessional singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s was in full swing, and Bob Dylan's emotional album [ Blood on the Tracks] resonated with the times. There would be other hits, but never the same alchemy of emotion and time.
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They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.
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Trying to create a next world war, he found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor, he said I never engaged in this kind of thing before, but yes I think it can be very easily done.
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So happy just to be alive, Underneath the sky of blue, On this new morning, new morning, On this new morning with you.
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I heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men and it all sounded no different to me.
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There's eyes behind the mirrors in empty places.
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All that foreign oil controlling American soil.
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Shedding off one more layer of skin, Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within.
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When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.
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People are going to say, ‘Well, it’s not very truthful.’ But a songwriter doesn’t care about what’s truthful. What he cares about is what should’ve happened, what could’ve happened. That’s its own kind of truth. It’s like people who read Shakespeare plays, but they never see a Shakespeare play. I think they just use his name.
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There's been rumors of war and wars that have been The meaning of life has been lost in the wind And some people thinkin' that the end is close by 'Stead of learnin' to live they are learnin' to die
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Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.
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I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin'. When she said, hey man, you crazy or somethin'?
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Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel. You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels.
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Can you please crawl out your window? Use your arms and your legs, it won't ruin you
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Don't criticize what you can't understand.
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DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about WILL COME TRUE. It's a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it's a fragile feeling, and you put it out there, then someone will kill it. It's best to keep that all inside.
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You been down to the bottom with a bad man, babe But you're back were you belong
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It may look like I'm moving but I'm standing still.
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Tangled Up in Blue, shifts perspective several times during the song to tell a tangled version of [Bob] Dylan's marriage and dissolution.
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The song was there before me, before I came along. I just sorta came down and just sorta took it down with a pencil, but it was there before I came around.
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You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing.
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You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.
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I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul.
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