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Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 26

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She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all.

She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all.

Speak Softly, Knows

Love Minus Zero/ No Limit (1965 song)

Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking 'bout the government.

Thinking, Government, Medicine

"Song: "Subterranean Homesick Blues"". 1965.

It wouldn't kill you to stay the night anyway.

Night

If you want to know how to please a woman, just talk to a neuroscience major from Columbia.

Want, Columbia, Neuroscience

You can't be happy by doing something groovy.

Groovy

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you.

Friendship, Break Up, Breakup

Song: Positively 4th Street

You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

Song, Writing, One Day

Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

and if anybody asks me is it easy to forget I'll say it is easily done, you just pick anyone, and pretend that you never have met

Done, Forget, Easy

Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time.

Time, Mind, Ruins

'Mr Tambourine Man' (1964 song)

I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon.

Redneck, Feel Better, Feelings

"Bob Dylan 'Feeling Better" released from hospital". www.mtv.com. June 2, 1997.

In the valley of the giants where the stars and stripes explode, the peaches they were sweet and the milk and honey flowed.

Sweet, Stars, Milk And Honey

Song: Angelina

I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

Adventurous, Type

"Dylan talks: Bob Dylan discusses his latest album 'Together Through Life'". Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.montereyherald.com. August 19, 2010.

I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

Giving, Sick, Soul

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

Mean, Long, Dies

With your silhouette when the sunlight dims Into your eyes where the moonlight swims, And your match-book songs and your gypsy hymns, Who among them would try to impress you? -Bob Dylan, "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” (1966)

Song, Book, Eye

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young.

Emotional, People, Different

"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.

Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount, But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts.

Nails, Matter, Deputies

Song: Shelter From The Storm, 1975

So, I don't know. I think so. It's all in the heart, whatever keeps you that way. Keeps you forever young. Forever young doesn't necessarily mean that you don't grow old, but you just have some contact with what put you where you are. You know, keep some type of contact. Anyway...

Heart, Mean, Thinking

There's no liquor in the land that can stop your brain from bleedin

Land, Brain, Liquor

You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to be vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose. I don't have anything but darkness to lose.

Reality, Darkness, Way

Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

If I made records for my own pleasure, I would only record Charley Patton songs.

Song, Records, Pleasure

How many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky? Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry? Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows That too many people have died? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Men, Wind, Sky

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

It's like going out to the desert and screaming and then having little kids throw their sandbox at you. I'm only 24.

Kids, Desert, Going Out

Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

Beauty walks a razors edge, someday I'll make it mine.

Razors, Someday, Walks

Song: Shelter from the Storm, 1975

I'm the oldest son of a crazy man, I'm in a cowboy band.

Crazy, Son, Cowboy

Song: Nettie Moore, Album: Modern Times, 2006

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