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Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 8

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If you like someone's work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to. Anyone who wants to be a songwriter should listen to as much folk music as they can, study the form and

If you like someone's work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to. Anyone who wants to be a songwriter should listen to as much folk music as they can, study the form and structure of stuff that has been around for 100 years.

Years, Important, Want

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

Sometimes I'm thinkin' I'm Too high to fall Other times I'm thinkin' I'm So low I don't know If I can come up at all

Fall, Sometimes, Lows

Song: Black Crow Blues, Album: Another Side of Bob Dylan

There's a lot of false prophets around and that's the trouble. People say they think they know what's right and other people get people to follow them because they have a certain type of charisma, and there's always people willing to take over. People want a leader. And there will be more and more of them.

Thinking, People, Leader

Source: www.rightwingbob.com

I never read Freud. I've never been attracted to anything he has said, and I think he's started a lot of nonsense with psychiatry and that business. I don't think psychiatry can help or has helped anybody. I think it's a big fraud (pun not intended) on the public.

Thinking, Helping, Nonsense

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

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

Clouds, Next, Moments

Bob Dylan (2005). “Bob Dylan: Inspirations”, p.136, Andrews McMeel Publishing

The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have titles.

Real, Thinking, Hands

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

Let the dead bury the dead, your time will come.

Death

Song: Foot of Pride

You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grinin

Friendship, Being Happy, Nerves

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?

Night, Play, Quiet

Song: Visions Of Johanna

Let me ask you one question Is your money that good Will it buy you forgiveness Do you think that it could I think you will find When your death takes its toll All the money you made Will never buy back your soul

Thinking, Soul, Tolls

Song: Masters Of War, Album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, 1963

I don't think I'm tangible to myself.

Thinking, Tangible

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

I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

Insanity, Stubborn, Politics

Song: Up to Me, Album: Biograph

It's mighty funny. The end of time has just begun.

Death, Ends, End Times

Song: Can't Wait, Album: Time Out Of Mind, 1997

The more you act the further you get away from the truth.

Get Away

Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 13, 2009.

Gates appeal to me because of the negative space they allow. They can be closed but at the same time they allow the seasons and breezes to enter and flow. They can shut you out or shut you in. And in some ways there is no difference.

Space, Differences, Negative

"Bob Dylan strikes heavy metal note with welded gates show" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2013.

Don't get up gentlemen. I'm only passing through!

Gentleman, Get Up, Passing

Song: Things Have Changed, Album: The Essential Bob Dylan, 2000

I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to see all at once, like all the books in the library-everything laying around on all the tables. You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right.

Song, Book, Ideas

Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

Song, Sound, Records

"Bob Dylan Talks: A Raw and Extensive First Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.rollingstone.com. November 29, 1969.

The song was there before me, before I came along. I just sorta came down and just sorta took it down with a pencil, but it was there before I came around.

Song, Down And, Pencils

Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land And don't criticize What you can't understand Your sons and your daughters Are beyond your command Your old road is Rapidly agin' Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand For the times they are a-changin'.

Daughter, Mother, Father

The Times They Are A-Changing (1964 song)

Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

Art, Inspire, Purpose

Interview with Jonathan Cott, www.rollingstone.com. January 26, 1978.

Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak too soon For the wheel's still in spin And there's no tellin' who That it's namin' For the loser now Will be later to win For the times they are a-changin'.

Eye, Winning, Wheels

Song: The Times They Are A-Changin', Album: The Times They Are A-Changin', 1964

Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter.

Song, People, Laughing

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

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

World

Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Love, America, Doe

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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