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Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 21

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I'm a good friend of Jonah Lehrer's. You should go on a date with him.

I'm a good friend of Jonah Lehrer's. You should go on a date with him.

Good Friend, Goes On, Should

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

Real, People, Design

Every writer at the New Yorker is smarter than me.

Smarter, New Yorkers

Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon -but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx -the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

Mean, Greatness, Looks

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young. Back then I guess most of my influences could be thought of as eccentric. Mass media had no overwhelming reach so I was drawn to the traveling performers passing through.

Emotional, Media, People

"Bob Dylan Exclusive Interview: Reveals His Favorite Songwriters, Thoughts On His Own Cult Figure Status". Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2009.

Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade.

Art, Media, Bed

And I hope that you die And your death'll come soon I will follow your casket In the pale afternoon And I'll watch while you're lowered Down to your deathbed And I'll stand o'er your grave 'Til I'm sure that you're dead

Hatred, Watches, Afternoon

Song: Masters of War

The woman I love she got a prize fighter nose, cauliflower ears and a run in her hose.

Running, Quality, Noses

The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handle

Pumps, Causes, Handle

Song: Subterranean Homesick Blues, Album: Bringing It All Back Home, 1965

The government's not going to create jobs. It doesn't have to. People have to create jobs.

Jobs, Government, People

"Bob Dylan: The Uncut Interview". Interview with Robert Love, www.aarp.org. February, 2015.

Nothing can affect my voice, it's so bad.

Voice

If I could have any job in the world, I'd start out by writing a blog on Wired.com.

Jobs, Writing, World

The first thing I know, I'm in a card game. Then I'm in a crap game.

Games, Cards, Firsts

Source: 18waits.com

I don't usually purge myself by writing anything about any type of quote, so-called, relationships.

Writing, Type

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

Popular music had never had lyrical sophistication of this type [like Bob Dylan]; wit, to be sure, but "Darkness at the break of noon/Shadows even the silver spoon/The handmade blade, the child's balloon/Eclipses both the sun and moon/To understand you know too soon/ There is no sense in trying"? No.

Children, Moon, Darkness

Source: www.thedailybeast.com

I'm a liberal to a degree, I want everybody to be free. But if you think that I'll let Barry Goldwater move in next door.

Moving, Thinking, Doors

Ain't nothing too discreet about the disease of conceit.

Disease, Conceit, Egotism

Song: Disease of Conceit, Album: Oh Mercy, 1989

So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away, to the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong.

Country, Hate, Cutting

Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.516, Simon and Schuster

Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features.

Compliment, Features

Song: Jokerman, Album: Infidels, 1983

I lost my one true love. I started drinking.

Drinking, Lost, One True Love

Source: 18waits.com

The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape.

Song, Writing, Knows

"Bob Dylan Not Like a Rolling Stone Interview". "Spin" Magazine Interview with Scott Cohen, www.interferenza.com. December 1985.

She takes your voice and leaves you howling at the moon.

Moon, Voice, Compliment

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

I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.

Kings, Wings, Impressed

Song: Is Your Love In Vain ?, Album: Street Legal, 1978

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

Song, Believe, Lexicon

"Dylan Revisited" by David Gates, www.newsweek.com. October 5, 1997.

We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it

Deny, Stranded

Song: Visions of Johanna

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