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Bob Dylan
444 quotes
“I've been deceived by the clown inside of me. I thought that he was righteous but he's vain.”
“My patron saint is a-fighting with a ghost. He's always off somewhere when I need him most.”
“Let me feel your love one more time before I abandon it.”
“I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.”
“If I thought about it, I never would have done it, I guess I would have let it slide.”
“The old Rounder in the iron mask slipped me the master key, somebody had to unlock your heart, he said it was up to me.”
“It frightens me the awful truth of how sweet life can be.”
“When you bite off more than you can chew, you pay the penalty, somebody's got to tell the tale, I guess it must be up to me.”
“Somebody's got to cry some tears, I guess it must be up to me.”
“Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do.”
“[Recounting a scene in The Gunfighter] Turn him loose, let him go, let him say he outdrew me fair and square — I want him to feel what it's like to every moment face his death.”
“I can't believe we've lived so long and are still so far apart.”
“I know she ain't you, but she's here, and she's got that dark rhythm in her soul.”
“She said, "Welcome to the land of the living dead," but you could tell she was so brokenhearted — she said, "Even the swap meets around here are getting pretty corrupt.”
“We're going all the way, till the wheels fall off and burn, till the sun peels the paint and the seat covers fade and the water moccasins die.”
“I didn't know whether to duck or to run, so I ran.”
“When I saw you break down in front of the judge and cry real tears, it was the best damn thing I saw anybody do.”
“I've always been the kind of person who doesn't like to trespass, but sometimes you just find yourself over the line.”
“I feel pretty good, but that ain't saying much — I could feel a whole lot better, if you were just here by my side to show me how.”
“The only thing we knew for sure about Henry Porter was that his name wasn't Henry Porter.”
“Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content.”
“You always said people don't do what they believe in; they just do what's most convenient, then they repent.”
“Tweeter and the Monkey Man were hard up for cash They stayed up all night selling cocaine and hash To an undercover cop who had a sister named Jan Who for reasons unexplained she loved the Monkey Man”
“Jan had told him many times "it was you to me who taught: in Jersey anything's legal as long as you don't get caught”
“We live in a political world Where peace is not welcome at all It's turned away from the door to wander some more Or put up against the wall.”
“Ring them bells Sweet Martha For the poor man's son Ring them bells so the world will know That God is one Oh, the shepherd is asleep Where the willows weep And the mountains are filled with lost sheep.”
“There are no mistakes in life, some people say And it's true, sometimes you can see it that way People don't live or die, people just float She went with the man in the long black coat.”
“There’s smoke on the water, it’s been there since June Tree trunks uprooted, 'neath the high crescent moon Feel the pulse and vibration and the rumbling force Somebody is out there beating on a dead horse”
“Seen a shooting star tonight, and I thought of you.”
“They'll kick you when you're up and knock you when you're down.”
“Your mind is your temple, keep it beautiful and free. Don't let an egg get laid in it by something you can't see.”
“Let me die in my footsteps before I go under the ground.”
“I'd throw all the guns and the tanks in the sea, for they are mistakes of a past history.”
“The whole world's a bottle, And life's but a dram, When the bottle gets empty, It sure ain't worth a damn.”
“When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?”
“Well, God is in His heaven And we all want what's his But power and greed and corruptible seed Seem to be all that there is I'm gazing out the window Of the St. James Hotel And I know no one can sing the blues Like Blind Willie McTell”
“Drinkin' man listens to the voice he hears, In a crowded room full of covered up mirrors, Lookin' into the lost forgotten years For dignity”
“I'm sick of love, and I'm in the thick of it.”
“Last night I danced with a stranger, but she just reminded me you were the one.”
“Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain”
“I know it looks like I'm moving, but I'm standing still Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from.”
“I been down on the bottom of a whirlpool of lies”
“Don't even hear the murmur of a prayer. It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.”
“I could hold you for a million years”
“When you think that you’ve lost everything, you find out you can always lose a little more.”
“She says, you don’t read women authors do you?... I said, You’re way wrong. She says, Which ones have you read then? I say, I read Erica Jong!”
“Insanity is crashing up against my soul.”
“Feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet... Putting her in a wheel barrow and wheeling her down the street.”
“People are crazy and times are strange I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range, I used to care, but things have changed.”
“You can hurt someone and not even know it”