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Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 31

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Mama, put my guns in the ground, I can't shoot them anymore. That long black cloud is coming down.

Mama, put my guns in the ground, I can't shoot them anymore. That long black cloud is coming down.

Family, Gun, Clouds

Bob Dylan (2016). “The Lyrics: 1961-2012”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

Family, Suffering, Guilt

Song: Ballad in Plain D, Album: Another Side of Bob Dylan, 1964

You'll find God in the church of your choice, you'll find Woody Guthrie in the Brooklyn State Hospital.

Choices, Musical, Church

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

Silvio, I gotta go, find out something only dead men know.

Men, Dead Man, Knows

Song: Silvio

He gambled all his life, he's got 27 children, yet he's never had a wife.

Children, Wife

Well the Lone Ranger and Tonto, they are riding down the line fixing everybody's troubles, everybody except mine.

Riding, Lines, Fixing

It will scramble your head and drag your brain about, sometimes you gotta do like Elvis did and shoot the damn thing out.

Brain, Sometimes, Drag

Song: T.V. Talkin' Song, Album: Under The Red Sky, 1990

Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate, Gothic, Romanesque, Greek Revival standing in a long line in the rain. Roman Catholic art. Sweeping front porches, turrets, cast-iron balconies, colonnades- 30-foot columns, gloriously beautiful- double pitched roofs, all the architecture of the whole wide world and it doesn't move.

Beautiful, Art, Moving

I'm one too many mornings, and a thousand miles behind.

Morning, Expression, Miles

Song: One Too Many Mornings, Album: The Times They Are A-Changin', 1964

There's been rumors of war and wars that have been The meaning of life has been lost in the wind And some people thinkin' that the end is close by 'Stead of learnin' to live they are learnin' to die

War, Wind, People

Bob Dylan (2016). “The Lyrics: 1961-2012”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

When you got nothin' / You got nothin' to lose.

Loses

Elizabeth Ann Bowden, Bob Dylan (1978). “Performed Literature: Words and Music by Bob Dylan”

Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it’s you who must keep it satisfied.

Men, Evil, Guides

Song: Man in The Long Black Coat, Album: Oh Mercy, 1989

Every day is the same thing out the door Feel further away then ever before Some things in life, it gets too late to learn Well, I'm lost somewhere I must have made a few bad turns

Life, Doors, Too Late

Song: Highlands

The whole world's a bottle, And life's but a dram, When the bottle gets empty, It sure ain't worth a damn.

Life, Bottles, World

Song: Moonshiner

My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune.

Guitar, Tunes, Bigs

Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

You're better than no one and no one is better than you.

Respect, Better Than You

Song: To Ramona

How many times have you heard someone say If I had his money I'd do things my way Hmm, but little they know Hmm, it's so hard to find One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind.

Money, Men, Mind

Song: A Satisfied Mind, Album: Saved, 1980

I could stay with you forever and never realize the time.

Love, Forever, Realizing

Song: You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go, Album: Blood on the Tracks, 1975

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

Pawns, Resentment, Grudge

Song: Love Minus Zero, Album: Bringing All Back Home

It ain't my cup of meat.

Expression, Meat, Cups

Song: The Mighty Quinn, Album: Self Portrait, 1970

If you can't lend a hand, then get out of the way.

Compassion, Hands, Way

Reality has always had too many heads.

Reality, Expression

Song: Cold Irons Bound, Album: Time Out Of Mind, 1997

The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you've only got ten.

Men, Pigs, Expression

And it's a hard, It's a hard, It's a hard, It's a hard, It's a hard rain gonna fall.

Rain, Fall, Hard

'A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall' (1963 song)

I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children.

Children, Future, Gun

"A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" (song) (1963)

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