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Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 12

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A lot of people from the press want to talk to me, but they never do.

A lot of people from the press want to talk to me, but they never do.

People, Want, Talk To Me

"Bob Dylan Not Like a Rolling Stone Interview". "Spin" Magazine Interview with Scott Cohen, www.interferenza.com. December 1985.

If ever asked to look at yourself, don't.

Looks, Look At Yourself, Ifs

You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you.

Clown, Tricks, Jugglers

Song: Like A Rolling Stone

There's enough songs for people to listen to, if they want to listen to songs. For every man, woman and child on earth, they could be sent, probaby, each of them, a hundred records, and never be repeated. There's enough songs. Unless someone's gonna come along with a pure heart and has something to say. That's a different story.

Song, Children, Writing

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

Wise, Men, Fool

I practice a faith that's been long abandoned Ain't no altars on this long and lonesome road

Faith, Practice, Long

Song: Ain't Talkin', Album: Modern Times, 2006

I didn't know whether to duck or to run, so I ran.

Running, Ducks, Politics

Song: Brownsville Girl, Album: Knocked Out Loaded, 1986

It's not me, it's the songs. I'm just the postman, I deliver the songs. When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail. This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway. People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

Running, Song, Busting Out

For them that must obey authority/That they do not respect in any degree/Who despise their jobs, their destinies/Speak jealously of them that are free

Jobs, Destiny, Degrees

Song: It's Alright, Ma

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

Musician, Writing Songs, Firsts

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

It's like my whole life never happened, When I see you, it's as if I never had a thought. I know this dream, it might be crazy, But it's the only one I've got.

Dream, Crazy, Might

Song: Emotionally Yours, Album: Empire Burlesque, 1985

The Duke [John Wayne] was a massive figure. He looked like a heavy piece of hauled lumber, and it didn't seem like any man could stand shoulder to shoulder with him.

Men, Pieces, Dukes

Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

My love is like some raven at my window with a broken wing.

Love Is, Wings, Ravens

Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

Way, Easy, Obvious

Bob Dylan (1995). “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

I really don't like to hurt myself. I have a good understanding with all the women who have been in my life, whether I see them occasionally or not.

Hurt, Understanding, Good Understanding

Bob Dylan “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

Technology is mechanical and contrary to the emotions that inform a person's life. The country music field has especially been hit hard by this. All my songs have been written by people who went out of fashion years ago. Just like da Vinci and Renoir and van Gogh. Nobody paints like that anymore. But it can't be wrong to try.

Country, Song, Fashion

"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.

Rod's a great singer. He's got a great voice, but there's no point to put a 30-piece orchestra behind him. I'm not going to knock anybody's right to make a living but you can always tell if somebody's heart and soul is into something, and I didn't think Rod was into it in that way.

Heart, Thinking, Voice

Interview with Robert Love, www.aarp.org. February, 2015.

How many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free.

Freedom, Years, People

'Blowin' in the Wind' (1962 song)

[Bob] Dylan crashed his motorcycle in 1967, and almost died. A few years ago, he referred to the experience as a "transfiguration."

Years, Motorcycle, Bob

Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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.

Cities, Mind, Mexico

"Jack Kerouac" by Alison Behnke, (p. 100), 2007.

I find C major to be the key of strength, but also the key of regret. E major is the key of confidence. A-flat major is the key of renunciation.

Regret, Keys, Flats

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

That's another way of writing a song, of course. Just talking to somebody that ain't there. That's the best way. That's the truest way. Then it just becomes a question of how heroic your speech is. To me, it's something to strive after.

Song, Writing, Talking

Interview with Paul Zollo, americansongwriter.com. January 9, 2012.

Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall.

Block, Doorways, Politics

Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them.

Want, Formulas, Complexes

"Bob Dylan Exclusive Interview: Reveals His Favorite Songwriters, Thoughts On His Own Cult Figure Status". Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2009.

You say you've lost your faith But that's not where it's at You have no faith to lose and you know it

Honesty, Lost, Knows

Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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