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Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 18

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Bent out of shape from society's pliers, cares not to come up any higher, but rather get you down in the hole that he's in.

Bent out of shape from society's pliers, cares not to come up any higher, but rather get you down in the hole that he's in.

Song, Pliers, Care

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

I bargained for salvation and they gave me a lethal dose.

Religious, Religion, Salvation

Everything that I'm saying You can say it just as good

Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.

Art, Media, Entertainment

Song: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?

Witty, Unexpected, Expecting

One who sings with his tongue on fire, gargles in the rat race choir.

Fire, Race, Rock And Roll

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

If God is on our side, he'll stop the next war.

War, Politics, Next

Song: With God On Your Side, Album: The Times They Are A-Changin', 1964

Walkin' through the leaves fallin' from the trees, Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees.

Tree, Stranger

May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung. May you stay forever young.

Stars, Forever, Ladders

Song: Forever Young, Album: Planet Waves, 1974

Abe said, where do you want this killing done? God said, out on highway 61.

Religious, Religion, Want

Everything from toy guns that spark To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark It's easy to see without looking too far That not much is really sacred.

Dark, Gun, Flesh

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

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Funny, Money, Funny Money

"It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" (song) (1965)

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

Singers, Saws, Folks

My love ,she speaks like silence, without ideals or violence. She doesn't have to say she's faithful, yet she's true.

Silence, Faithful, Quality

Song: Love Minus Zero, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965

Too much information about nothing.

Art, Media, Too Much Information

Song: Someone's Got A Hold Of My Heart

Bob Dylan wrote in his elliptical memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, he was washed up in the 1980s, no longer a commercial success, and no longer putting out good work.

Bob, Good Work, Volume

Source: www.thedailybeast.com

How many roads must a man walk down.. Before you can call him a Man.

Men, Walks, Rhetorical Question

'Blowin' in the Wind' (1962 song)

I hurt easy, I just don't show it. You can hurt someone and not even know it.

Hurt, Easy, Shows

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

Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.

Way, Mona Lisa, Highways

Song: Visions of Johanna

You just have to keep going to find that thing that lets you in the door. Sometimes in life when that day comes and you're given the key, you throw it away.

Keys, Doors, Sometimes

"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.

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

Song, Sea, Political

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

There used to be a time when the idea of heroes was important. People grew up sharing those myths and legends and ideals. Now they grow up sharing McDonalds and Disneyland.

Growing Up, Hero, Mcdonalds

I have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known.

People, Fame, Curse

"Why Bob Dylan deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature". Interview with Robert Chalmers, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 13, 2016.

I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.

Song, Singing, Terrible

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

Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp

Freedom Of Speech, Swamps, Speech

Song: Motorpsycho Nightmare, Album: Another Side of Bob Dylan, 1964

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