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Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 16

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I was headed for the fantastic lights. No doubt about it. Could it be that I was being deceived? Not likely. I don't think I had enough imagination to be deceived; had no false hope, either. I'd come from a long ways

I was headed for the fantastic lights. No doubt about it. Could it be that I was being deceived? Not likely. I don't think I had enough imagination to be deceived; had no false hope, either. I'd come from a long ways off and had started from a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.

Destiny, Thinking, Light

Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

The world of research has gone berserk. Too much paper work.

Gone, Research, World

Song: Nettie Moore, Album: Modern Times, 2006

It's always disappointing when people decide for one reason or another that they don't like your work anymore, but you can't try to please people, because then you're just going to be doing - you'll never live it down, y'know it'll always be dogging you around - you might be being a fake about the whole thing.

People, Fake, Trying

Source: www.rightwingbob.com

I ain't saying you treated me unkind you could've done better, but I don't mind. You just kinda wasted my precious time. But don't think twice, it's alright.

Friendship, Thinking, Mind

'Don't Think Twice, It's All Right' (1963 song)

How many roads must a man walk down, Before you call him a man? How many seas must a white dove sail, Before she sleeps in the sand? Yes, and how many times must the cannon balls fly, Before they're forever banned?

Sleep, Men, Sea

Song: Blowing In The Wind

I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation.

Talking, Generations

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

There's a whole lot of people in trouble tonight From the disease of conceit Whole lot of people seeing double tonight From the disease of conceit Give ya delusions of grandeur And a evil eye Give you the idea that You're too good to die Then they bury you from your head to your feet From the disease of conceit

Eye, Ideas, Feet

Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.535, Simon and Schuster

Don't follow leaders, watch your parkin' meters.

Leader, Watches, Politics

Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

I'm good with songs I haven't written, if I like them. I'm glad I didn't write any of them. I already know how they go, so I have more freedom with them. I understand these songs. I've known them for 40 years, 50 years, maybe longer, and they make a lot of sense. So I'm not coming to them like a stranger.

Song, Writing, Years

You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody.

Devil, May, Lord

Song: Gotta Serve Somebody

And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns... that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn't have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale... that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorientate myself. p.71

Believe, Creativity, Patterns

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

How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.

Travel, Home, Rolling

Song: Like A Rolling Stone

The hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying.

Play, Dying, Busy

Song: It's Alright, Ma, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965

Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes you just want to do things your way, want to see for yourself what lies behind the misty curtain. It's not like you see songs approaching and invite them in. It's not that easy. You want to write songs that are bigger than life. You want to say something about strange things that have happened to you, strange things you have seen. You have to know and understand something and then go past the vernacular.

Song, Lying, Writing

Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane.

Ideas, Insane, Driving

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

Music, People, Fats

Quoted in David Pickering Brewer's Twentieth Century Music (1994).

Down the street the dogs are barking And the day is getting dark. As the night comes in a-falling, The dogs´ll lose their bark And the silent night will shatter From the sounds inside my mind, For I´m one to many mornings And a thousand miles behind. From the crossroads of my doorstep, My eyes they start to fade, As I turn my head back to the room Where my love and I have laid.

Song, Dog, Morning

I'm not a playwright. The people in my songs are all me.

Playwright

"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.

Pain sure does bring out the best in people, doesn't it?

Pain, Philosophy, People

So now I'm going back again I got to get her somehow All the people we used to know They're an illusion to me now Some are mathematicians Some are carpenter's wives Don't know how it all got started I don't what they're doing with their lives But me I'm still on the road Heading for another joint We always did feel the same We just saw it from a different point of view Tangled up in Blue.

Blue, Views, Wife

Song: Tangled Up in Blue

She makes love just like a woman.

Profound, Making Love

Song: Just Like a Woman, Album: Blonde On Blonde, 1966

A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.

Breathing, People, Driven

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

Sailin' 'round the world in a dirty gondola Oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

Travel, Dirty, Land

Song: When I Paint My Masterpiece

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.

Song, Pages, Band

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

I do know what my songs are about.

Song, Knows

Source: 18waits.com

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