Sing your praise of progress and the doom machine, the naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen.

Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.

I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.

The confessional singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s was in full swing, and Bob Dylan's emotional album [ Blood on the Tracks] resonated with the times. There would be other hits, but never the same alchemy of emotion and time.

A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they got a lot of forks 'n knives. And they got to cut somethin'.

You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you.

[Bob] Dylan's broken-heart songs are so much better. Like "Simple Twist of Fate".