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Bob Dylan
444 quotes
“Ron Rosenbaum: When you hear your songs in your mind, it's not just you strumming alone, you mean?”
“Dylan: Well, no, it is to begin with. But then I always hear other instruments, how they should sound. The closest I ever got to the sound I hear in my mind was on individual bands in the Blonde on Blonde album. It's that thin, that wild mercury sound. It's metallic and bright gold, with whatever that conjures up. That's my particular sound. I haven't been able to succeed in getting it all the time. Mostly, I've been driving at a combination of guitar, harmonica and organ, but now I find myself going into territory that has more percussion in it and [pause] rhythms of the soul.”
“But I would not feel so all alone, everybody must get stoned!”
“Somebody got lucky, but it was an accident.”
“Oh Mama, can this really be the end? To be stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again?”
“And here I sit so patiently waiting to find out what price you have to pay to get out of going through all these things twice.”
“The one was Texas medicine, the other was just a railroad gin. And, like a fool, I mixed them; and it strangled up my mind.”
“Your debutante just knows what you need, but I know what you want.”
“You see, you're just like me. I hope you're satisfied.”
“Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're trying to be so quiet?”
“We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it.”
“He's sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all”
“Inside the museums, infinity goes up on trial. Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues You can tell by the way she smiles”
“The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face.”
“Name me someone that's not a parasite and I'll go out and say a prayer for him.”
“But these visions of Johanna, they make it all seem so cruel.”
“She is good to me And there's nothing she doesn't see She knows where I'd like to be But it doesn't matter”
“Well, I see you got your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat Yes, I see you got your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat Well, you must tell me, baby How your head feels under somethin' like that Under your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat”
“I asked the doctor if I could see you It's bad for your health, he said Well, I disobeyed his orders, I came to see you but I found him there instead Well, I don't mind him cheating on me but I sure wish he'd take that off his head Your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat”
“She takes just like a woman, yes she does She makes love just like a woman, yes she does And she aches just like a woman But she breaks just like a little girl.”
“You say you love me and you're thinking of me, but you know you might be wrong.”
“But to live outside the law, you must be honest.”
“And now here I stand, looking at your yellow railroad, in the ruins of your balcony”
“Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands, Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes, My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums, Should I leave them by your gate, Or, sad-eyed lady, should I wait?”
“With your sheets like metal and your belt like lace, And your deck of cards missing the jack and the ace, And your basement clothes and your hollow face, Who among them can think he could outguess you?”
“There must be some way out of here," said the Joker to the Thief”
“All along the watchtower, princes kept the view While all the women came and went, barefoot servants too Outside in the distance, a wild cat did growl Two riders were approaching. The wind began to howl.”
“I put my fingers against the glass, and bowed my head and cried”
“Nothing is revealed”
“Lay, lady, lay. Lay across my big, brass bed.”
“Whatever colors you have in your mind, I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine.”
“His clothes are dirty, but his hands are clean, and you're the best thing that he's ever seen.”
“Throw my ticket out the window, Throw my suitcase out there too, Throw my troubles out the door, I don't need them anymore, 'Cause tonight I'll be staying here with you.”
“Ev'rybody's in despair, Ev'ry girl and boy But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, Ev'rybody's gonna jump for joy.”
“Come all without, come all within, You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn.”
“Time passes slowly up here in the mountains”
“Some day everything is gonna be different, when I paint my masterpiece.”
“May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung. May your song always be sung, May you stay forever young.”
“May your hands always be busy. May your feet always be swift. May you have a strong foundation when the winds of changes shift. May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung. May you stay forever young.”
“Early one mornin' the sun was shinin', I was layin' in bed Wond'rin'if she'd changed at all If her hair was still red.”
“Tangled up in blue...”
“Lord knows I've paid some dues gettin' through...”
“I helped her out of a jam, I guess, but I used a little too much force...”
“And every one of them words rang true and glowed like burnin' coal. Pourin' off of every page, like it was written in my soul from me to you...”
“The only thing I knew how to do was to keep on keepin' on like a bird that flew...”
“All the people we used to know, they're an illusion to me now...”
“Don't know how it all got started, I don't know what they do with their lives...”
“We always did feel the same, we just saw it from a different point of view...”
“But all the while I was alone The past was close behind, I seen a lot of women But she never escaped my mind,”
“I lived with them on Montague Street In a basement down the stairs There was music in the cafes at night And revolution in the air.”