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Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 13

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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.

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.

Baby, People, Want

Song: Buckets of Rain, Album: Blood on the Tracks, 1975

Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.

Wall, War, Gun

Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

Really the truth is just a plain picture. A plain picture of, let's say, a tramp vomiting in the sewere. You know, and next door to the picture Mr. Rockefeller or Mr. C. W. Jones on the subway going to work. You know, any kind of picture. Just make a collage of pictures.

Artist, Doors, Vomiting

I just try to understand that tomorrow is another day.

Trying, Another Day, Tomorrow

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

The first thing you notice about New Orleans are the burying grounds - the cemeteries - and they're a cold proposition, one of the best things there are here. Going by, you try to be as quiet as possible, better to let them sleep. Greek, Roman, sepulchres- palatial mausoleums made to order, phantomesque, signs and symbols of hidden decay - ghosts of women and men who have sinned and who've died and are now living in tombs. The past doesn't pass away so quickly here. You could be dead for a long time

Sleep, Past, Men

Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.

Titles, Way, Accolades

"Bob Dylan Doesn't Accept Being The 'Voice Of His Generation'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. October 12, 2004.

Every cause that ever I fought, I fought it full without regret or shame.

Regret, Philosophy, Causes

Song: Restless Farewell

Look out your window, and I'll be gone. You're the reason I'm a-traveling on.

Letting Go, Looks, Gone

Song: Don't Think Twice, It's All Right, Album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, 1963

The one who is not being born is dying.

Dying, Born

Her profession's her religion, her sin is lifelessness.

Work, Sin, Profession

James Ensor, Bob Dylan (1999). “The Superhuman Crew”, p.38, Getty Publications

Somebody had to be Bob Dylan. I guess I was best equipped to do the job.

Jobs, Bob, Dylan

He hands you a nickel, he hands you a dime. He asks you with a grin, if you're having a good time.

Work, Hands, Dimes

Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

It's not a house, it's a home.

Home, House

Song: The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest, Album: John Wesley Harding, 1967

There's not even room enough to be anywhere/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.../I was born here and I'll die here against my will/I know it looks like I'm moving, but I'm standing still.

Moving, Dark, Rooms

"Song: "Not Dark Yet" ("Time Out of Mind")". 1997.

Every brain is civilized, Every nerve is analyzed, Everything is criticized when you are in need.

Brain, Needs, Nerves

Song: Unbelievable, Album: Under The Red Sky, 1990

Aretha with no goals, eternally single & one step soft of heaven/ let it be understood that she owns this melody along with her emotional diplomats & her earth & her musical secrets

Emotional, Goal, Heaven

Bob Dylan (2008). “Tarantula”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

I used to play hockey when I was growing up. Everyone sort of learns how to skate and play hockey at an early age.

Growing Up, Hockey, Play

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

Well, I sing by night, wander by day. I'm on the road and it looks like I'm here to stay.

Night, Looks, Wander

Song: Endless Highway

God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free.

Religious, Men, Vanity

Song: Ain't No Man Righteous

I can't stand to see myself on television.

Television, I Can

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 march in the parade of liberty But as long as I love you I’m not free How long must I suffer such abuse Won’t you let me see you smile one time before I turn you loose?

Love You, Long, Abuse

Song: Abandoned Love, Album: Biograph

When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.

Evil, Mud, Void

Song: Shelter from the Storm

Shadows are falling and I've been here all day/It's too hot to sleep, time is running away/Feel like my soul has turned into steel/I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal.

Running, Fall, Sleep

"Song: "Not Dark Yet" ("Time Out of Mind")". 1997.

I don't have the kinds of relationships that are built on any kind of false pretense, not to say that I haven't. I've had just as many as anybody else, but I haven't had them in a long time.

Long, Kind, Havens

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

Whatever that ["transfiguration" by Bob Dylan] means, it's true that the poetic brilliance of the early career would never really reappear.

Mean, Careers, Bob

Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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