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Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 20

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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.

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.

Opportunity, May, Might

"Chronicles: Volume One". Book by Bob Dylan, 2004.

I thought that he was righteous, but he's vain. Oh, somethings a telling me I wear the ball and chain.

Balls, Vain, Chains

Song: Abandoned Love, Album: Biograph

May you stay Forever Young

Birthday, Forever, May

Song: Forever Young, Album: Planet Waves, 1974

"Like a Rolling Stone" [of Bob Dylan] is a kiss-off song like none before or since.

Song, Kissing, Rolling

Source: www.thedailybeast.com

...don't criticize what you can't understand, your sons and your daughters are beyond your command.

Daughter, Son, Criticism

The Times They Are A-Changing (1964 song)

City's just a jungle; more games to play Trapped in the heart of it, tryin' to get away I was raised in the country, I been workin' in the town I been in trouble ever since I set my suitcase down

Country, Heart, Games

Bob Dylan (2006). “Lyrics 1962-2001. Testo inglese a fronte”, p.1098, Feltrinelli Editore

I was lingering out on the pavement. There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him . . . I felt done for, an empty burned-out wreck . . . Wherever I am, I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows.

Rocks, Missing, Done

Bob Dylan (2004). “Chronicles: Volume One”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

You don't have to be afraid of looking into my face. We've done nothing to each other that time will not erase.

Done, Faces, Erase

Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.556, Simon and Schuster

Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road.

Men, Wind, Adages

Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things, but you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe.

Drinking, Princess, Thinking

And I’ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it Then I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin’ But I’ll know my song well before I start singin

Song, Ocean, Thinking

Song: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

Who am I helping, what am I breaking, what am I giving, what am I taking?

Giving, Helping

Song: Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie

If I had wings, no one would ask me: should I fly?

Wings, Should, Ask Me

I've been sitting down studying the Art of Love. I think it will fit me like a glove.

Art, Thinking, Sitting Down

Song: Thunder On The Mountain, Album: Modern Times, 2006

God bless you all with peace, tranquility and good will.

Tranquility, God Bless You, Good Will

"Adele and her Oscars competition" by Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2013.

Bob Dylan wasn't a big star early on; it was the release of his Greatest Hits album in 1967, and the mainstream success of the stoner anthem "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" ("Everybody must get stoned!"), that really put him on the mainstream map.

Stars, Rainy Day, Albums

Source: www.thedailybeast.com

I forgot more than you'll ever know.

Forgotten, Knows

"Song: 'I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know'". 1953.

Either I'm too sensitive, or else I'm gettin' soft

Sensitive, Sensitivity

Bob Dylan (2017). “Lyrics 1961 - 2012: Nouvelle édition augmentée”, p.260, Fayard

If you ever tell anyone about Jonah's sexual dysfunction, I'll never play music again.

Play, Dysfunction, Jonah

Done laid around, done stayed around This old town too long And it seems like I've got to travel on

Song, Long, Done

Song: Gotta Travel On, Album: Self Portrait, 1970

She's a hypnotist collector; you are a walking antique.

Antiques, Collectors, Walking

Song: She Belongs To Me, Album: Bringing It All Back Home, 1965

On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.

Games, Names, Politics

Song: Only A Pawn In Their Game, Album: The Times They Are A-Changin', 1964

Bob has never written a bad song. Bob Dylan is a genius.

Song, Genius, Bob

Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Past, Way, Incredibles

Bob Dylan (2008). “Tarantula”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

Wasn't making any great connection Wasn't falling for any intricate scheme Nothing that would pass inspection Just thinking of a series of dreams

Dream, Fall, Thinking

Song: Series of Dreams

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