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Bob Dylan
444 quotes
“Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time...”
“Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free.”
“With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, let me forget about today until tomorrow.”
“Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me. I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to. Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me. In the jingle-jangle morning, I'll come following you.”
“All and all can only fall with a crushing but meaningless blow.”
“And there are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.”
“Of war and peace the truth just twist, its curfew gull it glides.”
“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”
“He not busy being born is busy dying”
“Others say, don't hate nothing at all except hatred”
“Disillusioned words like bullets bark As human gods aim for their mark Make everything from toy guns that spark To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark It's easy to see without looking too far That not much is really sacred”
“Even the President of the United States Sometimes must have to stand naked”
“It is not he or she or them or it That you belong to.”
“While one who sings with his tongue on fire Gargles in the rat race choir”
“Money doesn't talk, it swears”
“You must leave, now take what you need, You think will last But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast Yonder stands your orphan with his gun Crying like a fire in the sun.”
“The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense.”
“Your lover who just walked out the door, has taken all his blankets from your floor.”
“Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you. Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you. Strike another match, go! Start anew And it's all over now, Baby Blue.”
“You got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down, you just stood there grinning.”
“Do you take me for such a fool to think I'd make contact with one that tries to hide what he don't know to begin with.”
“I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you.”
“How does it feel? To be on your own, with no direction home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone?”
“Once upon a time you dressed so fine, threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you. People call, say beware doll, you're bound to fall, you thought they were all, kiddin you.”
“You used to laugh about Everybody that was hangin' out Now you don't talk so loud Now you don't seem so proud About having to be scrounging for your next meal”
“You never turned around to see the frowns, on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did, tricks for you.”
“Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made”
“Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse. When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose. You're invisible now. You've got no secrets to conceal.”
“The sweet pretty things are in bed now, of course.”
“The sun's not yellow, it's chicken.”
“Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride, you will not die, it's not poison”
“The geometry of innocent flesh on the bone Causes Galileo's math book to get thrown At Delilah's who sitting worthlessly alone But the tears on her cheeks are from laughter”
“And the National Bank at a profit sells road maps for the soul To the old folks home and the college”
“Well I ride on a mail train baby, can't buy a thrill.”
“Don't the moon look good, mama, shinin' through the trees? Don't the brakeman look good, mama, flaggin' down the double E? Don't the sun look good goin' down over the sea?”
“And you say, Oh my God, am I here all alone?”
“You've been with the professors and they've all liked your looks. With great lawyers you've discussed lepers and crooks.”
“You go watch the geek, who immediately walks up to you when he hears you speak, and says, how does it feel to be such a freak?, and you say, impossible as he hands you a bone.”
“And something is happening here, but you don't know what it is, do you Mr. Jones?”
“Here's your throat back, thanks for the loan.”
“You put your eyes in your pockets and your nose on the ground.”
“They already expect you to just give a check to tax-deductible charity organization.”
“Oh God said to Abraham, Kill me a son. Abe says, Man, you must be puttin' me on. God say, No. Abe say, What? God say, You can do what you want Abe, but the next time you see me comin' you better run. Well Abe says, where do you want this killin' done? God says, Out on Highway 61.”
“The cops don't need you, and, man, they expect the same.”
“I started out on burgundy but soon hit the harder stuff.”
“They're selling postcards of the hanging”
“Yes, I received your letter yesterday (About the time the door knob broke) When you asked how I was doing Was that some kind of joke? All these people that you mention Yes, I know them, they're quite lame I had to rearrange their faces And give them all another name Right now I can't read too good Don't send me no more letters no Not unless you mail them From Desolation Row”
“Now at midnight all the agents And the superhuman crew Come out and round up everyone That knows more than they do”
“The Titanic sails at dawn”
“And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot Fighting in the captain's tower While calypso singers laugh at them And fishermen hold flowers...”