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Bob Dylan Inspirational Quotes (540)

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I have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known.
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You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.
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Let me drink from the waters where the mountain streams flood Let the smell of wildflowers flow free through my blood Let me sleep in your meadows with the green grassy leaves Let me walk down the highway with my brother in peace Let me die in my footsteps Before I go down under the ground.
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Just a reminder, if you tell anyone about what happened with Jonah last night, I'll destroy all of my writing and never play music again.
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There were only a few seats left in coach and Bob found himself seated next to a young female fan. 'I can't believe I'm sitting next to Bob Dylan!' she screamed.'Pinch yourself,' said Bob.
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When I was growing up - say in the fifties - the thirties to me didn't even exist. I couldn't even imagine them in any kind of way, so I don't expect anyone growing up now is gonna even understand what the sixties were all about, anymore than I could the thirties or twenties.
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Art can lead you to God. I think that's the purpose of everything. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's leading you the other way. It's certainly not leading you nowhere.
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My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands.
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i been meek, and hard like an oak, i seen pretty people disappear like smoke. friends will arrive, friends will disappear. if you want me, honey baby, i'll be here.
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your problem is that wanna better word for world
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In songs, you have to tell people about something they didn't see and weren't there for, and you have to do it as if you were.
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Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
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As long as you give my friend Jonah Lehrer a free pizza, I'll write a song about your restaurant.
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She makes love just like a woman.
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You know, sometimes a person's reputation can be far more colossal than the influence of the person. I don't pay any attention to it anymore.
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I'm a liberal to a degree, I want everybody to be free. But if you think that I'll let Barry Goldwater move in next door.
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Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.
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Is your money that good, will it buy you forgiveness?
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Popular music had never had lyrical sophistication of this type [like Bob Dylan] wit, to be sure, but 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? No.
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Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.
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They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.
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Love is all there is, it makes the world go around. Love and only love, it can't be denied.
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Ain't no use jiving, ain't no use joking, everything is broken.
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You can't be wise and in love at the same time.
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