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A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life, and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness. Happiness is a state of bliss. Just because you're satisfied one moment -

A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life, and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness. Happiness is a state of bliss. Just because you're satisfied one moment - saying yes, it's a good meal, makes me happy - well, that's not going to necessarily be true the next hour. Life has its ups and downs, and time has to be your partner. Time is your soul mate. Children are happy. But they haven't really experienced ups and downs yet. I'm not exactly sure what happiness even means. I don't know if I personally could define it.

Bob Dylan
Children, Mean, Self
"Bob Dylan: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

Feeling funny in my mind, Lord I believe I'm fixing to die Well, I don't mind dying But I hate to leave my children crying Well, I look over yonder to that burying ground Look over yonder to that burying ground Sure seems lonesome, Lord, when the sun goes down

Bob Dylan
Death, Children, Hate
Song: Fixin' To Die Blues, Album: Bob Dylan, 1962

There's enough songs for people to listen to, if they want to listen to songs. For every man, woman and child on earth, they could be sent, probaby, each of them, a hundred records, and never be repeated. There's enough songs. Unless someone's gonna come along with a pure heart and has something to say. That's a different story.

Bob Dylan
Song, Children, Writing

Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun.

Bob Dylan
Family, Mother, Children

[In 1951] we were also told that the Russians could be parachuting from planes over our town at any time. These were the same Russians that my uncles had fought alongside only a few years earlier. Now they had become monsters who were coming to slit our throats and incinerate us. It seemed peculiar. Living under a cloud of fear like this robs a child of his spirit. It's one thing to be afraid when someone's holding a shotgun on you, but it's another thing to be afraid of something that's just not quite real.

Bob Dylan
Uncles, Children, Real
Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

Popular music had never had lyrical sophistication of this type [like Bob Dylan]; wit, to be sure, but "Darkness at the break of noon/Shadows even the silver spoon/The handmade blade, the child's balloon/Eclipses both the sun and moon/To understand you know too soon/ There is no sense in trying"? No.

Bob Dylan
Children, Moon, Darkness
Source: www.thedailybeast.com

She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall. She's nobody's child, the law can't touch her at all.

Bob Dylan
Children, Fall, Law
Song: She Belongs To Me, Album: Bringing It All Back Home, 1965

Witchcraft scum exploiting the dumb turning children into punks and slaves.

Bob Dylan
Children, Evil, Dumb
Song: Band Of The Hand It's Hell Time Man

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

Bob Dylan
Children, Wife

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

Bob Dylan
Children, Future, Gun
"A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" (song) (1963)

I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken, I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children, And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Bob Dylan
Children, Rain, Fall
'A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall' (1963 song)

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