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Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 10

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I feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet, putting her in a wheel-barrow and wheeling her down the street.

I feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet, putting her in a wheel-barrow and wheeling her down the street.

Love, Dream, Fall

Song: Things Have Changed, Album: The Essential Bob Dylan, 2000

I was sick of the way my lyrics had been extrapolated, their meanings subverted into polemics and that I had been anointed as the Big Bubba of Rebellion, High Priest of Protest, the Duke of Disobedience, Leader of the Freeloaders, Kaiser of Apostasy, Archbishop of Anarchy, the Big Cheese. Horrible titles any way you want to look at it. All code words for Outlaw.

Sick, Leader, Want

I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred.

Hate, Anger, Men

Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

Ring the bells for the blind and deaf.

Bells, Blind, Deaf

Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind, Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves, The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach, Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow. Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands, With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, Let me forget about today until tomorrow.

Beach, Memories, Crazy

"Mr. Tambourine Man" (song) (1964)

Everybody knows by now that there's a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the near future. So I'm encouraging anybody who's ever met me, heard me or even seen me, to get in on the action and scribble their own book. You never know, somebody might have a great book in them.

Book, Might, Action

"Bob Dylan posts web message about China shows" by Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2011.

Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands

Hands, Sea, Sky

"Mr. Tambourine Man" (song) (1964)

He's hell bent for destruction, he's afraid and confused, and his brain has been mismanaged with great skill.

Confused, Skills, Evil

Song: License to Kill, Album: Infidels, 1983

I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin'. When she said, hey man, you crazy or somethin'?

Crazy, Heart, Men

I play these [folk acoustic] concerts and I ask myself, 'Would you come see me tonight?' - and I'd have to answer truthfully, 'No, I wouldn't come. I'd rather be doin' something else, really I would. That something else is rock... The words are pictures, and the rock's gonna help me flesh out the colors of the pictures. (1965)

Play, Rocks, Color

There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.

One Day At A Time, Tonight, Today

Bob Dylan (2004). “Chronicles: Volume One”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

The people in my songs are all me.

Song, People

"Bob Dylan Sounds Off On The Origin Of His New Record, Parlor Music, Dr. Dre, And Who His Songs Are About". Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2009.

I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave

Communicate

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.

Journey, Nowhere To Turn, Limbo

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Folk songs are evasive-the truth about life, and life is more or less a lie, but then again that's exactly the way we want it to be. We wouldn't be comfortable with it any other way. A folk song has over a thousand faces and you must meet them all if you want to play this stuff. A folk song might vary in meaning and it might not appear the same from one moment to the next. It depends on who's playing and who's listening.

Song, Lying, Play

Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

The harmonica is the world's best-selling musical instrument. You're welcome.

Musical, World, Welcome

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

I'm used to writing songs and songs-I can fill em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book (Chronicles, Vol. 1), you gotta tell the truth, and it can't be misinterpreted.

Song, Book, Writing

If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

Thinking, Answers, Bob

Bob Dylan (2005). “Bob Dylan: Inspirations”, p.34, Andrews McMeel Publishing

I'll stand over your grave 'til I'm sure that you're dead.

Death, Over You, Graves

Song: Masters Of War

All right, I'll take a chance. I will fall in love with you. If i'm a fool you can have the night, you can have the morning too. 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?

Falling In Love, Morning, Pain

Song: Is Your Love In Vain ?

There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They have got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.

Hurt, Black And White, Thinking

Address to the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, December 13, 1963.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

Thinking, Poetic, Poet

Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

We don't see the people that vice destroys. We just see the glamour of it - everywhere we look, from billboard signs to movies, to newspapers, to magazines. We see the destruction of human life.

People, Vices, Looks

"Bob Dylan interview: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

your problem is that wanna better word for world

World, Problem

I had ambitions to set out and find, like an odyssey or going home somewhere, set out to find this home that I'd left a while back and couldn't remember exactly where it was, but I was on my way there. And encountering what I encountered on the way was how I envisioned it all. 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?

Home, Ambition, Way

"No Direction Home: Bob Dylan". Biography, Documentary, 2005.

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