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Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 9

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Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

Graduation, Home, College

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

I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy.

Unhappy

Bob Dylan, Robert Santelli (2005). “The Bob Dylan scrapbook: 1956-1966”, Egully.com

I'm not going to read any of these magazines. I mean, because they've just got too much to lose by printing the truth. You know that.

Mean, Magazines, Too Much

How many deaths will it take 'till we know that too many people have died?

People, Died, Knows

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

You say love is just a four letter word.

Love, Four, Letters

I want to use songs that everybody knows or thinks they know. I want to show them a different side of it and open up that world in a more unique way. You have to believe what the words are saying and the words are as important as the melody. Unless you believe the song and have lived it, there's little sense in performing it. I never wanted to be a singer that

Song, Believe, Unique

I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.

Country, Song, Writing

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

It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be.

Life, Sweet, Fear

Song: Up to Me, Album: Biograph

He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich.

Reading, Years, Ten

Song: Joey, Album: Desire

People call you this or that. But I can't respond because then it seems like I'm defensive, you know, what does it matter, really?

People, Criticism, Doe

When you asked me how I was doing, was that some kind of joke

Kind, Jokes

Song: Desolation Row, Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.

Philosophy, Lying, Truth Is

Song: Trouble in Mind

Every day your memory grows dimmer - it doesn't haunt me like it did before.

Memories, Grows, Our Memories

Song: Trying To Get To Heaven, Album: Time Out of Mind, 1997

I'm looking for a woman who's head is mixed up like mine.

Quality, Mines

You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.

Song, Writing, Pages

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

Might, Solar System, Wells

Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

Call me any name you like I will never deny it.

Names, Deny, Call Me

Song: Farewell, Angelina

Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.

Mind, Stories, Sticks

"Only Human Driftin' And Learnin'" by Sidney Fields. New York Mirror, December 9, 1963.

The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money.

Milk And Honey, Land, Politics

Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.778, Simon and Schuster

Well now what's the use in dreamin' You got better things to do Dreams never did work for me anyway Even when they did come true

Dream, Use, Wells

Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.906, Simon and Schuster

You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live.

Music, Song, Woody

Every step of the way we walk the line Your days are numbered, so are mine Time is pilin' up, we struggle and we scrape We're all boxed in, nowhere to escape

Time, Struggle, Lines

Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.862, Simon and Schuster

They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.

Art, Jobs, Self

Song: Trouble in Mind

You've got to lose your passion for dumbness.

Passion, Interesting, Dumbness

Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored

Bored, Trying, Want

Song: Maggie's Farm

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