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Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 25

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When the jelly faced women all sneeze, hear the one with the mustache say I can't find my knees.

When the jelly faced women all sneeze, hear the one with the mustache say I can't find my knees.

Mustache, Jelly, Knees

Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books.

Book, Scott Fitzgerald, Crooks

Song: Ballad of a Thin Man, Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

Too much of nothing can turn a man into a liar. It can cause one man to sleep on nails and another to eat fire.

Liars, Sleep, Men

Bob Dylan (2016). “The Lyrics: 1961-2012”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

The good Samaritan, he's getting dressed, he's getting ready for the show. He's going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row.

Art, Media, Tonight

Bob Dylan (2016). “The Lyrics: 1961-2012”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

I am a restless soul hungry perhaps wretched.

Soul, Hungry, Restless

I don't write the songs; I just write 'em down.

Song, Writing, Ems

God knows there's a heaven.

Profound, Heaven, God Knows

Song: God Knows, Album: Under The Red Sky, 1990

Uncle fought in Vietnam and then he fought a war all by himself.

Uncles, War, Insanity

Song: Legionnaire's Disease

My songs are personal music, they're not communal. I wouldn't want people singing along with me. It would sound funny. I'm not playing campfire meetings. I don't remember anyone singing along with Elvis, Carl Perkins or Little Richard.

Song, People, Singing

Cop comes down the street crazy as a loon, he throws us in jail for carrying harpoons.

Crazy, Jail, Insanity

The ghosts race towards the light, you can almost hear the heavy breathing spirits, all determined to get somewhere. New Orleans, unlike a lot of places you go back to and that don't have the magic anymore, still has got it. Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. You can't see it, but you know it's here. Somebody's always sinking.

Night, New Orleans, Light

I just wanted a song to sing, and there came a point where I couldn't sing anything...nobo dy else was writing what I wanted to sing. I couldn't find it anywhere. If I could I probably would never have started writing.

Song, Writing, Wanted

Seven shots ring out like the ocean's pounding roar, there's seven people dead on a South Dakota farm.

Ocean, People, Insanity

Song: Ballad of Hollis Brown

As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree, and the locusts sang off in the distance.

Education, Distance, Degrees

Song: Day of The Locusts, Album: New Morning, 1970

They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in, sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss banks.

Education, Grace, Way

Song: Foot of Pride

People tell me it's a sin, to know and feel too much within.

Education, People, Too Much

Song: Simple Twist of Fate, Album: Blood On The Tracks, 1975

All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives.

People, Wife, Illusion

Any real Bob Dylan fan would sleep with Jonah Lehrer.

Real, Sleep, Fans

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Compassion, Blame, Cease

Song: Angelina

Last night I danced with a stranger, but she just reminded me you were the one.

Night, Lasts, Stranger

Song: Standing In The Doorway, Album: Time Out of Mind, 1997

It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry

Laughing, Cry, Train

Song: It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

Love, Dream, Nature

The highlight of my career? That's easy, Elvis recording one of my songs.

Song, Careers, Easy

Oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies.

Sweet, Time, Passion

Song: Dark Eyes, Album: Empire Burlesque, 1985

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

Purpose, Chaos, Accepting

Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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