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Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 23

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Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you, but no, you will not be deceived. Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt, you can give but you cannot receive.

Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you, but no, you will not be deceived. Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt, you can give but you cannot receive.

Death, Giving, Bullets

Song: No Time to Think, Album: Street Legal, 1978

They can't hurt me. Sure, they can crush you and kill you. They can lay you out on 42nd and Broadway and put hoses on you and flush you in the sewers and put you on the subway and carry you out to Coney island and bury you on the Ferris wheel. But I refuse to sit here and worry about dying.

Crush, Hurt, Islands

Bob Dylan (2005). “Bob Dylan: Inspirations”, p.67, Andrews McMeel Publishing

It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people.

People, Cameras, Way

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Bob Dylan was again an entirely new person - this time old, craggy, cynical, and world-weary, as in "Not Dark Yet".

Dark, Cynical, World

Source: www.thedailybeast.com

Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/ You will not die, its not poison -Tombstone Blues

Tombstone, Pride, Poison

There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It's hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger.

Suffering, Degrees, Hunger

"Bob Dylan Sounds Off On The Origin Of His New Record, Parlor Music, Dr. Dre, And Who His Songs Are About". Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2009.

Romance never does go out of fashion. It's radical. But it's out of step with the current media culture.

Fashion, Media, Romance

May God bless and keep you always, May your wishes all come true, May you always do for others And let others do for you. May you build a ladder to the stars And climb on every rung, May you stay forever young.

Stars, Forever, Wish

Song: Forever Young, Album: Planet Waves, 1974

Broken bottles, broken plates, broken switches, broken gates. Broken dishes, broken parts, streets are filled with broken hearts.

Heart, Reality, Broken

Song: Everything is Broken, Album: Oh Mercy, 1989

I like spiritual songs. They struck me as truthful and serious. They brought me down to earth and they lifted me up all in the same moment.

Spiritual, Song, Earth

"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.

One night around that time, at Hammersmith, Bob Dylan was about to go into [his 1963 classic] 'Don't Think Twice, It's Alright.He said, 'Hey, Bucky! Play mandolin on this.' I am not really a mandolin player; I could only play in certain keys. Halfway through, he stops the band, turns to the audience and points to me. He says: 'He isn't playing, he's miming.' And then: 'Should I fire him?' The whole audience yells.

Player, Night, Thinking

Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

Let me feel your love one more time before I abandon it.

Time, Let Me, Abandon

Song: Abandoned Love, Album: Biograph

I always thought the best kind of sunglasses are the motorcycle helmets with the black plastic masks on them. That way, nobody can recognize the back of your head either.

Motorcycle, Black, Way

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

I put one on the turntable and when the needle dropped, I was stunned - didn't know whether I was stoned or straight.

Needles, Turntables, Knows

Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

People talk about Frank Sinatra all the time - and they should talk about Frank - but he had the greatest arrangers. They worked for him in a different kind of way than they worked for other people. They gave him arrangements that are just sublime on every level. And he, of course, could match that because he had this ability to get inside of the song in a sort of a conversational way. Frank sang to you, not at you, like so many pop singers today. Even singers of standards.

Song, People, Sublime

"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.

Most songs have bridges in them, to distract listeners from the main verses of a song so they don't get bored. My songs don't have a lot of bridges because lyric poetry never had them.

Song, Lyric Poetry, Bridges

"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.

Old New York City is a friendly old town From Washington Heights to Harlem on down There's a-mighty many people all millin' all around They'll kick you when you're up and knock you when you're down It's hard times in the city Livin' down in New York town

New York, Hard Times, Cities

Song: Hard Times in New York Town

Once you think you know the song, then you have go and see how other people have done it.

Song, Thinking, People

Interview with Robert Love, www.aarp.org. February, 2015.

Everything's a business. Love, truth, beauty. Conversation is a business. Spirituality is not a business, so it's going to go against the grain of people who are trying to exploit other people.

People, Trying, Spirituality

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

My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip, my toes to numb to step, wait only for my boot heels to be wandering.

Reality, Hands, Waiting

Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

I'm gonna spare the defeated. I'm gonna tame the proud.

Proud, Defeated, Spares

Source: projects.iq.harvard.edu

Can you please crawl out your window? Use your arms and your legs, it won't ruin you

Use, Legs, Arms

Bob Dylan (2016). “The Lyrics: 1961-2012”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

You got men who can't hold peace and women who can't control their tongues. The rich seduce the poor, and the old seduce the young.

Reality, Men, Tongue

People are going to say, ‘Well, it’s not very truthful.’ But a songwriter doesn’t care about what’s truthful. What he cares about is what should’ve happened, what could’ve happened. That’s its own kind of truth. It’s like people who read Shakespeare plays, but they never see a Shakespeare play. I think they just use his name.

Thinking, Names, Play

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

Sleep, Fans, Breakfast

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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