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Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 24

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You travel the world, you go see different things. I like to see Shakespeare plays, so I'll go - I mean, even if it's in a different language. I don't care, I just like Shakespeare, you know. I've seen Othello and

You travel the world, you go see different things. I like to see Shakespeare plays, so I'll go - I mean, even if it's in a different language. I don't care, I just like Shakespeare, you know. I've seen Othello and Hamlet and Merchant of Venice over the years, and some versions are better than others. Way better. It's like hearing a bad version of a song. But then somewhere else, somebody has a great version.

Song, Mean, Years

"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.

People do whatever they want to do, y'know.

People, Want, Knows

Source: www.needsomefun.net

The "joker" here ["All Along the Watchtower" ] is the older [Bob] Dylan himself, whining about exploitation, and the thief's rejoinder re-contextualizes the earlier critique into the religious frames that would become more prominent as time went on.

Religious, Thieves, Bob

Source: www.thedailybeast.com

...how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned?

Peace, Forever, Balls

Song: Blowin' In The Wind

Oh, God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son" Abe said, "Man, you must be puttin' me on" God said, "No" Abe say, "What?" God say, "You can do what you want, Abe, but The next time you see me comin', you better run" Well, Abe said, "Where d'you want this killin' done?" God said, "Out on Highway 61".

Running, Son, Men

"Highway 61 Revisited". Song by Bob Dylan, 1965.

I'd been going though his trash. He knocked me down. I was glad to see him, even though he was banging my head against the sidewalk. Afterwards these bums come over and say, 'Did he get much money?' I say, 'Money'? That was Bob Dylan.

Bob, Trash, Dylan

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

Get jailed, jump bail, join the Army if you fail.

Army, Order, Law

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

An artist has got to be constantly in a state of becoming.

Artist, Becoming, States

And I'll know my song well before I start singing

Song, Singing, Wells

Betsy Bowden, Bob Dylan (2001). “Performed Literature: Words and Music by Bob Dylan”, University Press of Amer

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am.

Here I Am, Clown, Stuck In The Middle

"Letters: Supernova Sleuth; Gerry Rafferty". Interview with Michele Norris, www.npr.org. January 5, 2011.

Well, the moral of the story, The moral of this song, Is simply that one should never be Where one does not belong. So when you see your neighbor carryin' somethin', Help him with his load, And don't go mistaking Paradise For that home across the road.

Song, Home, Doe

Song: The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest, Album: John Wesley Harding

Well, my daddy, he didn't leave me much, you know he was a very simple man, but what he did tell me was this, he did say, son, he said, he say, you know it's possible to become so defiled in this world that your own father and mother will abandon you and if that happens, God will always believe in your ability to mend your ways.

Mother, Father, Believe

Bob Dylan's acceptance speech for a lifetime achievement award at the Grammys, www.expectingrain.com. February 20, 1991.

Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.

Teacher, Book, Sea

Song: Jokerman, Album: Infidels, 1983

Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan.

Politics, Someday, Plans

Song: Maybe Someday, Album: Knocked Out Loaded, 1986

Everything in New Orleans is a good idea.

New Orleans, Ideas, Good Ideas

Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

The executioner's face is always well hidden.

Expression, Faces, Executioners

Song: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, Album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, 1963

Loneliness Got a mind of its own The more people around The more you feel alone

Loneliness, People, Mind

Song: Marchin' to the City

When the deeds that you do don't add up to zero.

Zero, Expression, Add

Song: Trouble in Mind

Sometimes I wonder what it's gonna take to find dignity.

Dignity, Sometimes, Wonder

Song: Dignity

Nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street.

Education, Taught, Streets

Song: Like A Rolling Stone

The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Wind, Answers

"Blowin' in the Wind" (song) (1962)

Advertising signs: they con you into thinking you're the one That can do what's never been done That can win what's never been won Meantime life outside goes on all around you

Winning, Thinking, Done

Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

It's sundown on the union And what's made in the USA Sure was a good idea 'Til greed got in the way.

Work, Usa, Ideas

"Song: 'Union Sundown'". 1983.

Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth. None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.

Wine, Earth, Lines

Song: All Along The Watchtower, Album: John Wesley Harding, 1967

They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.

Work, Congratulations, Race

Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.689, Simon and Schuster

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