What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening - all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke.


Bob Dylan

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I'm not that kind of Bob Dylan, tortured creative.
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The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA
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DANNY HALE
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TEKOA MANNING
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Your future is guided by the knowledge gleaned from the past.
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Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future.
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The crisis is not in the future, ... It?s here now.
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Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life.
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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The greatest mystery of all: tomorrow.
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CLAUDIO REYNA
Bob Dylan is the Jew of all time.
GUY OSEARY
Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future.
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The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.
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My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.
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We both agreed that we have to talk about the present and the future now.
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ELISABETH ELLIOT
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Eat for lunch, but let something for dinner.
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For as much as you can, build the past and the future that you can carry yourself.
MARIANA FULGER
He is the governor and he thinks it's important for the future, whether he's here or not,
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It's not true. I can guarantee that.
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Given that I don’t know anything, when I am making up stories about the future, why not make it a ...
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If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
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No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
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A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
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It's hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.
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Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
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Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.
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I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.
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When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?
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I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know fo...
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I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
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There is nothing so stable as change.
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All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
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If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
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I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
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Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
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A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does wha...
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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act.
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Money doesn't talk, it swears.
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I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly ...
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I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be j...
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You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past -- whatever experience gotten in any way what...
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I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedo...
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Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napole...
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To live outside the law, you must be honest.
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Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
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Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and ther...
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In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.
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People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
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But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.
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Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturb...
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Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
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For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.
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Democracy don't rule the world, you better get that in your head; this world is ruled by violence, b...
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Well, I don't know, but I've been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how thin...
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Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
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Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting y...
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The times they are a-changing.
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People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
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How many roads must a man walk down Before your can call him a man? . . . The answer, my frien...
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Blame it on a simple twist of fate.
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Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's ...
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Chaos is a friend of mine.
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Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land, And don't criticize What you can't understand
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Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence,...
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He not busy being born is busy dying.
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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in betwee...
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All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all goin...
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Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Si...
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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in betwee...
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Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!
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People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed arou...
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Hey! Mr. Tamborine Man, play a song for me. I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
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Come you masters of warYou that build all the gunsYou that build the death planesYou that build the ...
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In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, Draw ...
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For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.
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I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior pow...
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All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
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Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.
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I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
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It's not easy to define poetry.
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Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
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Don't criticize what you can't understand.
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A poem is a naked person....Some people say that I am a poet.
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Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music....
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I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul.
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I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours
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I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.
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Swallow your pride, you will not die, it's not poison.
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You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows.
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When you ain't got nothin', you got nothin' to lose.
BOB DYLAN
The picture you have in your mind of what you're about will come true.
BOB DYLAN
Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do.
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...You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
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Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.
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If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through the dust no matter how thick.
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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.
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I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.
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I was always fishing for something on the radio. Just like trains and bells, it was part of the soun...
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I never saw myself as a folk singer.
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I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
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Folk music is a bunch of fat people.
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Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them.
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This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never list...
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May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see t...
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He's written extraordinary songs, hasn't he? I consider him one of the preeminent songwriters of the...
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Look out, kid, it's sumpin' ya did, God knows when, but you're doin' it again
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How many times can a man turn his head and pretend he just doesn't see?
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Yes to dance beneath a diamond sky with one hand waving free, silhouetted by the sea, circled by the...
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I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. B...
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It fell from a 10 story building and exploded in front of me.
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I wish that for just one time / you could stand inside my shoes / and just for that one moment / I c...
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Johnny's in the basement, mixin' up the medicine...I'm on the pavement, thinkin' about the governmen...
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You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.
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Play it fuckin' loud!
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I kinda live where I find myself.
BOB DYLAN
I'm inconsistent, even to myself.
BOB DYLAN
Everybody is even making love or else expecting rain
BOB DYLAN
Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.
BOB DYLAN
The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in...
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People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book.
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I didn't come out of a cereal box.
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You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're go...
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Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.
BOB DYLAN
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now
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When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in fu...
BOB DYLAN
And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns... that I would have to st...
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If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will...
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He never knew my name, He never knew my name. And though I never met him, I knew him just the same, ...
BOB DYLAN
The radio makes hideous sounds.
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Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at ...
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I had just returned to Woodstock from the Midwest - from my father's funeral. The previous week had ...
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I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now.

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BOB DYLAN
How many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
Yes, 'n' how many ears must o...
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To live outside the law you must be honest.
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I'm against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly n...
BOB DYLAN
i've forgotten more than you'll ever know
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Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane...
BOB DYLAN
Crimson flames tied through my ears
Rollin' high and mighty traps
Pounced with fire on fla...
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Johnny was and is the North Star. You could guide your ship by him.
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You can't be happy by doing something groovy.
BOB DYLAN
What happened to Woody Guthrie, Bob?
BOB DYLAN
I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.
BOB DYLAN
Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
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I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.
BOB DYLAN
Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's...
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I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon.
BOB DYLAN
I don't believe you. You're a liar.
BOB DYLAN
Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.
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I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
BOB DYLAN
Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
BOB DYLAN
I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.
BOB DYLAN
What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.
BOB DYLAN
You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows
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You've got a lot of nerve, To say you are my friend, When I was down, you just stood there grinning
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You're basically putting it out through a corporation regardless . . . How you get it out is really ...
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He who's not busy being born is busy dying
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There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.
BOB DYLAN
You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way.
BOB DYLAN
Steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and they make you king.
BOB DYLAN
Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
BOB DYLAN
I'm mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it's the only place where I'm happy.
BOB DYLAN
All I'd ever done was sing songs that were dead straight and expressed powerful new realities. I had...
BOB DYLAN
I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon.
BOB DYLAN
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind
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Ah - but I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now
BOB DYLAN
The city is one very long poem. A lazy rhythm looms in the dreamy air and the atmosphere pulsates wi...
BOB DYLAN
Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land, And don't criticize What you can't understand
BOB DYLAN
Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn).
BOB DYLAN
Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
BOB DYLAN
Somebody had to be Bob Dylan. I guess I was best equipped to do the job.
BOB DYLAN
Blonde on Blonde.
BOB DYLAN
You're gonna have to serve somebody.
BOB DYLAN
I'm not a playwright.
BOB DYLAN
All I can be is me- whoever that is.
BOB DYLAN
[Neil Young's lyrics from his 1988 hit] This Notes For You ... The Times They Are A Changing.
BOB DYLAN
I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so I'm on my way home.
BOB DYLAN
May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.
BOB DYLAN
I wanna say hello to all the ex-hippies tonight. I've never been a hippie myself but I'm an honorary...
BOB DYLAN
Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
BOB DYLAN
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed aroun...
BOB DYLAN
When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.
BOB DYLAN
I don't think I'm tangible to myself.
BOB DYLAN
There's beauty in the silver singing river, There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky, But none of th...
BOB DYLAN
I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all t...
BOB DYLAN
reality has too many heads
BOB DYLAN
Dostoevsky, too, had lived a dismal and hard life. The czar sent him to a prison camp in Siberia in ...
BOB DYLAN
If you're looking to get silly, you better go back to from where you came. because the cops don't ne...
BOB DYLAN
they say every man needs protection, they say every man must fall.
yet I swear I see my reflect...
BOB DYLAN
I had no time for romance. I turned away from the window, from the wintry sun, crossed through the r...
BOB DYLAN
But, like Shakespeare, I too am often occupied with the pursuit of my creative endeavors and dealing...
BOB DYLAN
Once upon a time You dressed so fine
BOB DYLAN
I never took much, I never asked for your crutch, Now don't ask for mine.
BOB DYLAN
In another life, I could have been you," she'd say.
"Yeah, but then I wouldn't have been the s...
BOB DYLAN
She's got everything she needs; she's an artist, she don't look back.
BOB DYLAN