Bob Dylan Quotes
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Morality has nothing in common with politics.
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do Not create anything, it will bemisinterpreted. it will not change.it will follow you the rest of your life.
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I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet. Anybody who could possibly call himself a poet just cannot be a poet.
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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.
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Opportunities may come along for you to convert something-something that exists into something that didn't yet.
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Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.
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I used to think that myself and my songs were the same thing. But I don't believe that any more. There's myself and there's my song, which I hope is everybody's song.
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Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.
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I don't call myself a poet because I don't like the word.
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An artist has gotta be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's at somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming.
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You can't be wise and in love at the same time.
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Greed and lust I can understand, but I can't understand the values of definition and confinement. Definition destroys. Besides, there's nothing definite in this world.
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Bob Dylan: I do know what my songs are about.Playboy: And what's that?Bob Dylan: Oh, some are about four minutes; some are about five, and some, believe it or not, are about eleven or twelve.
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People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
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I put one on the turntable and when the needle dropped, I was stunned - didn't know if I was stoned or straight... All these songs together, one after another made my head spin. It made me want to gasp. It was like the land parted.
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My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.
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America was changing. I had a feeling of destiny and I was riding the changes... My consciousness was beginning to change, too, change and stretch.
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God, I'm glad I'm not me.
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I kinda live where I find myself.
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Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.
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Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.
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You have to be let alone to really accomplish anything.
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Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul Minnesota in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.
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You don't need my autograph. If you needed it, I'd give it to you.