I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.
Bob DylanMadonna, she still has not showed, we see this empty cage now corrode, where her cape of the stage once had flowed, the fiddler he now steps to the road, on the back of the fish truck that loads, while my conscience explodes.
Bob DylanSo, I don't know. I think so. It's all in the heart, whatever keeps you that way. Keeps you forever young. Forever young doesn't necessarily mean that you don't grow old, but you just have some contact with what put you where you are. You know, keep some type of contact. Anyway...
Bob DylanIt rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people.
Bob DylanIt's like my whole life never happened, When I see you, it's as if I never had a thought. I know this dream, it might be crazy, But it's the only one I've got.
Bob DylanYou'll find God in the church of your choice, you'll find Woody Guthrie in the Brooklyn State Hospital.
Bob DylanThe ghosts race towards the light, you can almost hear the heavy breathing spirits, all determined to get somewhere. New Orleans, unlike a lot of places you go back to and that don't have the magic anymore, still has got it. Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. You can't see it, but you know it's here. Somebody's always sinking.
Bob DylanCrimson flames tied through my ears rolling high and mighty traps, pounced with fire on flaming roads using ideas as my maps.
Bob DylanAfter becoming famous once again - a 1976 song, "Hurricane," even marked a return to protest songwriting - [Bob] Dylan got addicted to drugs, found Jesus, left Jesus, and put out a lot of swill.
Bob DylanI consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
Bob DylanSundown, yellow moon, I replay the past I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast
Bob DylanYou breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live, when I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give. Dried the tears up from my dreams and pulled me from my hole, quenched my thirst and satisfied the burning in my soul.
Bob DylanBeing singer is different than being an actor, where you call up sources from your own experience that you can apply to whatever Shakespeare drama you're in. But an actor is pretending to be somebody, a singer isn't. And that's the difference. Singers today have to sing songs where there's very little emotion involved. That and the fact that they have to sing hit records from years gone by doesn't leave a lot of room for any kind of intelligent creativity.
Bob DylanI took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin'. When she said, hey man, you crazy or somethin'?
Bob DylanSing your praise of progress and the doom machine, the naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen.
Bob DylanBent out of shape from society's pliers, cares not to come up any higher, but rather get you down in the hole that he's in.
Bob DylanAs he weeps to wicked birds of prey, who pick up on his bread crumb sins, and there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden.
Bob DylanI never did use earphones until into the Eighties or Nineties. I don't like to use earphones. I've never heard anybody sing with earphones effectively. They just give you a false sense of security. A lot of us don't need earphones. I don't think Springsteen or Mick do. But other people more or less have given in. But they ought not to. They don't need to. Especially if they have a good band.
Bob DylanLook, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.
Bob DylanI have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known.
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