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Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 17

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I used to think it's better if you just live and die and no one knows who you are.

I used to think it's better if you just live and die and no one knows who you are.

Thinking, Used, Just Live

Source: www.rightwingbob.com

You will find God in the church of your choice.

Choices, Deep Thought, Church

Song: Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie

She can play my guitar note for note, she likes to stick her tongue down my throat.

Guitar, Play, Quality

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

Music, Ocean, Sinking

Betsy Bowden, Bob Dylan (2001). “Performed Literature: Words and Music by Bob Dylan”, University Press of Amer

You swore you'd never compromise With the mystery tramp, but now you realise He's not selling any alibis As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes And say, do you want to make a deal How does it feel

Philosophical, Eye, Want

Yesterday is just a memory.

Memories, Yesterday

Song: Don't Fall Apart On Me Tonight, Album: Infidels, 1983

You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing.

Change, Swimming, Stones

In the dime stores and bus stations  People talk of situations  Read books, repeat quotations  Draw conclusions on the wall  Some speak of the future  My love she speaks softly  She knows there’s no success like failure  And that failure’s no success at all -Bob Dylan, “Love Minus Zero / No Limit” (1965)

Zero, Wall, Book

Love Minus Zero/ No Limit (1965 song)

And there's no one there to dry your tears. I could hold you for a million years. To make you feel my love.

Inspirational Love, Years, Tears

Song: Make You Feel My Love, Album: Time Out of Mind, 1997

Having hits buries a singer in the past. A lot of singers hide in the past because it's safer back there. If you've ever heard today's country music, you'll know what I'm talking about.

Country, Past, Talking

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

I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame And every time I pass that way I always hear my name

Flames, Names, Temptation

Song: Every Grain Of Sand, Album: Shot of Love, 1981

In harmony with cosmic sea, true love needs no company. It can cure the soul, it can make it whole, if dogs run free.

Love, Running, Dog

Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.943, Simon and Schuster

You five and ten cent women with nothing in your heads, I got a real gal I'm loving and Lord I'll love her 'til I'm dead.

Real, Lord, Gals

You have to look at every one of your songs and be able to identify with them in a meaningful way. You can hardly sing your songs unless you're in them. If you want to fake it, go ahead. Fake it if you want. But I'm not that kind of singer.

Meaningful, Song, Fake

Charity is suppose to cover up for a multitude of sins.

Cover Ups, Charity, Sin

She speaks with a stutter and she and she walks with a hop. I don't know why I love her, but I just can't stop.

Quality, Speak, Hops

Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.728, Simon and Schuster

Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun.

Family, Mother, Children

There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.

Religious, Eden, Religion

Song: Gates of Eden, Album: Bringing It All Back Home, 1965

I'll be selling tickets for my next tour exclusively through Jonah Lehrer. Make sure to pay cash.

Cash, Pay, Next

You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.

Land, Want, Land Of The Free

"Bob Dylan gives rare interview". "60 Minutes" with Ed Bradley, www.cbsnews.com. December 5, 2004.

They say every man needs protection They say every man must fall So, I swear I see my reflection Somewhere inside these walls... I shall be released.

Wall, Fall, Reflection

"I Shall Be Released". Song by Bob Dylan, 1969.

Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)

Dad, Grateful, Bob

I don't need your organization, I've moved your mountains and I've marked you cards, but Eden is burning. You better get ready for elimination or else your hearts must have the courage of the changing of the guard.

Religious, Heart, Eden

Watch waterfalls of pity roar, you feel to moan but unlike before, you discover that you'd just be one more person crying.

Sadness, Watches, Waterfalls

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

New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.

New York, Cities, Frozen

Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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