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Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 7

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Art can lead you to God. I think that's the purpose of everything. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's leading you the other way. It's certainly not leading you nowhere.

Art can lead you to God. I think that's the purpose of everything. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's leading you the other way. It's certainly not leading you nowhere.

Faith, Art, Inspiration

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

President, United States, Naked

"It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" (song) (1965)

The inmates and prisoners, I found they were my kind, and it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind.

Order, Law, Mind

Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

The future for me is already a thing of the past - You were my first love and you will be my last

Love, Past, Lasts

Song: Bye and Bye

let me forget about today until tomorrow

Philosophy, Today, Tomorrow

"Mr. Tambourine Man" (song) (1964)

Well, you always know who you are. I just don't know who I'm gonna become.

Wells, Knows, Who You Are

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

Inspiration, Hard

"Bob Dylan discusses his latest album 'Together Through Life'". The Monterey County Herald Interview, www.montereyherald.com. August 19, 2010.

..When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail

Music, Jail, Busting Out

I wouldn't even think of playing music if I was born in these times. I wouldn't even listen to the radio.

Thinking, Playing Music, Radio

They say everything can be replaced, Yet every distance is not near. So I remember every face Of every man who put me here. I see my light come shining From the west unto the east. Any day now, any day now, I shall be released.

Distance, Men, Light

Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.419, Simon and Schuster

Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise. I mean, you're around awhile, you leave certain things to the young. Don't try to act like you're young. You could really hurt yourself.

Wise, Hurt, Passion

"Bob Dylan Dropped Some Serious Wisdom on 35 Million AARP Members" by John Hendrickson, www.esquire.com. January 22, 2015.

Don't forget to support your public library.

Support, Library, Forget

Love is all there is, it makes the world go 'round Love and only love, it can't be denied No matter what you think about it You just won't be able to do without it Take a tip from one who's tried

Love, Thinking, World

Song: I Threw It All Away, Album: Nashville Skyline

It's very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself don't dig you.

People, Tire, Ifs

Bob Dylan (1995). “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

He swift don't win the race. It goes to the worthy, who can divide the word of truth.

Song, Winning, Race

Song: I and I, Album: Infidels, 1983

Got no religion. Tried a bunch of different religions. The churches are divided. Can't make up their minds and neither can I.

Mind, Church, Different

They asked me for some collateral and I pulled down my pants.

Pants, Collateral

Song: Bob Dylan's 115th Dream, Album: Bringing It All Back Home, 1965

I made a bargain with him, the chief in a world we can't see. (devil)

Devil, World, Made

I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word.

Poet, Trapeze, Trapeze Artists

Bob Dylan (2005). “Bob Dylan: Inspirations”, p.17, Andrews McMeel Publishing

In 1975,Bob Dylan was almost 10 years past his prime - and then he released the best album of his career, Blood on the Tracks. Written and recorded amid a painful divorce, Blood on the Tracks is proof that heartbreak makes great art - just as many of the albums that followed were the opposite.

Art, Divorce, Past

Source: www.thedailybeast.com

Black is the Color and none is the number

Color, Numbers, Black

All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

Oil, Politics, Soil

Song: Slow Train, Album: Slow Train Coming, 1979

In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.

Wise, Song, Writing

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

Travel, Home, Land

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

Truth is like a waterslide-only fun when it's slippery and wet.

Fun, Truth Is, Wet

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