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Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 19

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We all like motorcycles to some degree.

We all like motorcycles to some degree.

Motorcycle, Degrees

Bob Dylan (2005). “Bob Dylan: Inspirations”, p.76, Andrews McMeel Publishing

Everybody's the first somebody, y'know.

Firsts, Knows

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Shedding off one more layer of skin, Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within.

Evil, Skins, Steps

Song: Jokerman, Album: Infidels, 1983

When I was growing up - say in the fifties - the thirties to me didn't even exist. I couldn't even imagine them in any kind of way, so I don't expect anyone growing up now is gonna even understand what the sixties were all about, anymore than I could the thirties or twenties.

Growing Up, Twenties, Way

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Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid

Kids, Years, Twenties

If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

Dying, Comfort, Busy

Your eyes are like two jewels in the sky.

Eye, Jewels, Sky

Song: One More Cup Of Coffee Valley Below, Album: Desire, 1976

As long as you give my friend Jonah Lehrer a free pizza, I'll write a song about your restaurant.

Song, Writing, Long

You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore.

Artist, Forgive Me, Poetry

Fearing not that I'd become my enemy In the instant that I preach

Enemy, Instant

Song: My Back Pages, Album: Another Side of Bob Dylan, 1964

[In 1951] we were also told that the Russians could be parachuting from planes over our town at any time. These were the same Russians that my uncles had fought alongside only a few years earlier. Now they had become monsters who were coming to slit our throats and incinerate us. It seemed peculiar. Living under a cloud of fear like this robs a child of his spirit. It's one thing to be afraid when someone's holding a shotgun on you, but it's another thing to be afraid of something that's just not quite real.

Uncles, Children, Real

Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

Suddenly I found you and the spirit in me sings, Don't have to look no further, You're the soul of many things.

Love, Romantic, Found You

Song: Something There is About You, Album: Planet Waves, 1974

Money doesn't exist because I don't recognize it.

A brilliant 1989 album, Oh Mercy; some career retrospectives; and two albums of American folk songs, with just Bob Dylan and his guitar and harmonica. All that culminated in the Grammy-winning comeback album, Time Out of Mind (1997). Once again, just as Dylan seemed to be out of it, he was back at the top of his game.

Song, Winning, Games

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People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

Music, Ideas, People

The Guardian, February 13, 1992.

A noble truth is a sacred creed.

Expression, Noble, Sacred

Song: Tweedle Dee And Tweedle Dum

Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.

Men, Hands, Evil

Bob Dylan (2006). “Lyrics 1962-2001. Testo inglese a fronte”, p.896, Feltrinelli Editore

I like the fans, but I don't feel an obligation that I have to be an example to them, like say maybe a baseball player would, or a football player or maybe some other type of musicians. I don't feel I have to really set an example that somebody else has to live up to.

Baseball, Football, Player

Source: www.rightwingbob.com

Whenever anybody does something in a big way, it's always rejected at home and accepted someplace else.

Home, Way, Doe

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

My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.

Education, Thinking, Noble

Song: My Back Pages, Album: Another Side Of Bob Dylan

I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place.

Singers, Certain, Folks

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 tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies, and the bright light of salvation shines in dark and empty skies.

Philosophy, Dark, Light

Song: Death is Not The End, Album: Down In The Groove, 1988

Just a reminder, if you tell anyone about what happened with Jonah last night, I'll destroy all of my writing and never play music again.

Writing, Night, Play

Ah, current music. What would that be? Ah, really, a lot of it sounds defective to me. It makes me restless.

Sound, Restless, Currents

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I was never a topical songwriter.

Songwriters

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