Bob Dylan Quotes

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Bob Dylan Quotes

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Bob Dylan

Singer-songwriter

Melancholic

“Feeling funny in my mind, Lord I believe I'm fixing to die Well, I don't mind dying But I hate to leave my children crying Well, I look over yonder to that burying ground Look over yonder to that burying ground Sure seems lonesome, Lord, when the sun goes down”

Children Hate Death

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Bob Dylan

Singer-songwriter

Spiritual

“You don't have to be afraid of looking into my face. We've done nothing to each other that time will not erase.”

Done Faces Erase

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Spiritual

“We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it”

Deny Stranded

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Angry

“I forgot more than you'll ever know.”

Knows Forgotten

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Melancholic

“I was lingering out on the pavement. There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him . . . I felt done for, an empty burned-out wreck . . . Wherever I am, I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows.”

Done Rocks Missing

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Spiritual

“My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.”

Thinking Education Noble

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Melancholic

“Whenever anybody does something in a big way, it's always rejected at home and accepted someplace else.”

Way Home Doe

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Grateful

“People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.”

People Ideas Music

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Happy

“Bob Dylan wasn't a big star early on; it was the release of his Greatest Hits album in 1967, and the mainstream success of the stoner anthem "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" ("Everybody must get stoned!"), that really put him on the mainstream map.”

Stars Albums Rainy Day

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Sad

“The "joker" here ["All Along the Watchtower" ] is the older [Bob] Dylan himself, whining about exploitation, and the thief's rejoinder re-contextualizes the earlier critique into the religious frames that would become more prominent as time went on.”

Religious Thieves Bob

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Sad

“You got men who can't hold peace and women who can't control their tongues. The rich seduce the poor, and the old seduce the young.”

Men Reality Tongue

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Spiritual

“Everything's a business. Love, truth, beauty. Conversation is a business. Spirituality is not a business, so it's going to go against the grain of people who are trying to exploit other people.”

People Trying Spirituality

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