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Bob Dylan
444 quotes
“I been walkin forty miles of bad road. If the Bible is right the world will explode. I've been trying to get as far away from myself as I can”
“My clothes are wet, tight on my skin. Not as tight as the corner that I've painted myself in.”
“You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way.”
“I'm walking through the leaves falling from the trees, Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees.”
“So many things that we never will undo I know you're sorry, I'm sorry too.”
“I'm drownin' in the poison, got not future got no past.”
“But my heart is not weary; it's light and it's free I've got nothing but affection for those who've sailed with me.”
“Everybody movin', if they ain't already there. Everyboy got to move somewhere.”
“Things should start to get interesting right about now.”
“Politician's got on his jogging shoes, he must be running for office, got no time to lose”
“I'm sittin' on my watch so I can be on time.”
“The future for me is already a thing of the past.”
“I'm gonna baptize you in fire so you can sin no more.”
“Funny how the things you have the hardest time parting with are the things you need the least.”
“I'm gonna spare the defeated—I'm gonna speak to the crowd I'm gonna spare the defeated, boys, I'm going to speak to the crowd I am goin' to teach peace to the conquered I'm gonna tame the proud”
Bob Dylan (born 1941) first seen 1134 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Compare: "But yours will be the rulership of nations, / remember Roman, these will be your arts: / to teach the ways of peace to those you conquer, / to spare defeated peoples, tame the proud." The Aeneid of Virgil: A V…
“Down over the window Comes the dazzling sunlit rays Through the back alleys, through the blinds Another one of them endless days”
“My old man he's like some feudal lord, got more lives than a cat.”
“Jump into the wagon, love, throw your panties overboard.”
“I can write you poems, make a strong man lose his mind.”
“As great as you are, man, you’ll never be greater than yourself.”
“Don’t reach out for me, she said. Can’t you see I’m drowning too?”
“Last night across the alley there was a pounding on the wall It must have been Don Pascuale making a two a.m. booty call”
“Gonna forget about myself for a while, gonna go out and see what others need.”
“Feel like my soul is beginning to expand. Look into my heart and you will sort of understand.”
“The world of research has gone berserk. Too much paperwork.”
“Some people never work a day in their lives, don't know what work even means.”
“If I catch my opponents ever sleepin', I'll just slaughter 'em where they lie.”
“I'm listening to Billy Joe Shaver And I'm reading James Joyce Some people they tell me I've got the blood of the land in my voice”
“The door has closed for evermore, If indeed there ever was a door.”
“Just give to me my gravestone With it clearly carved upon: "I'm a long time a-comin' An' I'll be a long time gone”
“She left one too many a boy behind He committed suicide”
“It's soon after midnight, and I got a date with a fairy queen”
“Another politician pumpin' out the piss.”
“He bent in the middle like a twisted pin”
“Long before the First Crusade, way back before England or America was made.”
“Mr. Freud with his dreams, Mr. Marx with his ax.”
“Who cleared the path for Presley to sing Who carved out the path for Martin Luther King”
“I lit the torch, I looked to the east, and I crossed the Rubicon.”
“I’m so deep in love that I can hardly see.”
“Well, it might not be the thing to do, but I’m sticking with you through and through.”
“Bob Dylan: The media is all-pervasive. What can a writer think of to write that you don't see every day in a newspaper or on television? Interviewer: ...Do you think that TV and the media have killed poetry and literature? Bob Dylan: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. ... What's a writer to do if every idea is exposed in the media before he can get to it or let it evolve? What's a writer gonna write about? ... We're living in a science-fiction world. We're living in a world that Disney has conquered. Disney's science fiction. Theme parks, trendy streets, it's all science fiction. So I would say, if a writer has got something to say, he'll have to do it in that– Interviewer: Outside of the real world? Bob Dylan: There is a real world. Science fiction has become the real world. Whether we realize it or not, it has.”
Bob Dylan (born 1941) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Rome Press Conference (23 July 2001)
“I began to think about William Shakespeare, the great literary figure. I would reckon he thought of himself as a dramatist. The thought that he was writing literature couldn't have entered his head. His words were written for the stage. Meant to be spoken not read. When he was writing Hamlet, I'm sure he was thinking about a lot of different things: "Who're the right actors for these roles?" "How should this be staged?" "Do I really want to set this in Denmark?" His creative vision and ambitions were no doubt at the forefront of his mind, but there were also more mundane matters to consider and deal with. "Is the financing in place?" "Are there enough good seats for my patrons?" "Where am I going to get a human skull?" I would bet that the farthest thing from Shakespeare's mind was the question "Is this literature?”
“Hattie Carroll was a maid of the kitchen She was fifty-one years old and gave birth to ten children Who carried the dishes and took out the garbage And never sat once at the head of the table And didn‘t even talk to the people at the table Who just cleande up all the food from the table And emptied the ashtrays in a whole other level Got killed by a blow, lay slain by a cane That sailed through the air and came down through the room Doomed and determined to destroy all the gentle And she never done nothing to William Zanzinger But you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears Take the rag away from your face Now ain‘t the time for your tears.”
“In the courtroom of honor, the judge pounded his gravel To show that all‘s equal and that the courts are on the level And the strings in the books ain‘t pulled and persuaded And that even the nobles get properly handled Once that the cops have chased after and caught ´em And that the ladder of law has no top and no bottom Stared at the person who killed for no reason Who just happened to be feelin‘ that way without warnin‘ And he spoke through his cloak, most deep and distinguished And handed out strongly, for penalty and repentance William Zanzinger with a six-month sentence Oh, but you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears Bury the rag deep in your face For now‘s the time for your tears.”