My favorite politician was Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, who reminded me of Tom Mix, and there wasn't any way to explain that to anybody.
Bob DylanRemember when you're out there trying to heal the sick, that you must always first forgive them.
Bob DylanMaybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way.
Bob DylanSocialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.
Bob DylanYou just have to keep going to find that thing that lets you in the door. Sometimes in life when that day comes and you're given the key, you throw it away.
Bob DylanI can't see my reflection in the waters, I can't speak the sounds that show no pain. I can't hear the echo of my footsteps, or can't remember the sound of my own name.
Bob DylanYou use to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat, who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat.
Bob DylanPeople call you this or that. But I can't respond because then it seems like I'm defensive, you know, what does it matter, really?
Bob DylanIt's not me, it's the songs. I'm just the postman, I deliver the songs. When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail. This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway. People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
Bob DylanHappiness is not on my list of priorities. I just deal with day-to-day things. If I'm happy, I'm happy – and if I'm not, I don't know the difference... Knowing that you are the person you were put on this earth to be – that's much more important than just being happy.
Bob DylanYou 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.
Bob DylanI'll be selling tickets for my next tour exclusively through Jonah Lehrer. Make sure to pay cash.
Bob DylanThe purpose of music is to elevate the spirit and inspire. Not to help push some product down your throat. It puts you in tune with your own existence. Sometimes you really don't know how you feel, but really good music can define how you feel... someone who's telling me where he's been that I haven't and what it's like there - somebody whose life I can feel.
Bob DylanBroken bottles, broken plates, broken switches, broken gates. Broken dishes, broken parts, streets are filled with broken hearts.
Bob Dylani been meek, and hard like an oak, i seen pretty people disappear like smoke. friends will arrive, friends will disappear. if you want me, honey baby, i'll be here.
Bob DylanAdulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up?
Bob DylanThere are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It's hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger.
Bob DylanYou don't have to be afraid of looking into my face. We've done nothing to each other that time will not erase.
Bob DylanEverybody knows by now that there's a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the near future. So I'm encouraging anybody who's ever met me, heard me or even seen me, to get in on the action and scribble their own book. You never know, somebody might have a great book in them.
Bob DylanCome Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall.
Bob DylanStop all this weeping, swallow your pride/ You will not die, its not poison -Tombstone Blues
Bob DylanYou're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right, now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself, you decide for yourself.
Bob DylanAnd I’ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it Then I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin’ But I’ll know my song well before I start singin
Bob DylanTechnology is mechanical and contrary to the emotions that inform a person's life. The country music field has especially been hit hard by this. All my songs have been written by people who went out of fashion years ago. Just like da Vinci and Renoir and van Gogh. Nobody paints like that anymore. But it can't be wrong to try.
Bob DylanA song is like a dream, and you try to make it come true. They're like strange countries that you have to enter.
Bob DylanPeople talk about Frank Sinatra all the time - and they should talk about Frank - but he had the greatest arrangers. They worked for him in a different kind of way than they worked for other people. They gave him arrangements that are just sublime on every level. And he, of course, could match that because he had this ability to get inside of the song in a sort of a conversational way. Frank sang to you, not at you, like so many pop singers today. Even singers of standards.
Bob DylanWhen the jelly faced women all sneeze, hear the one with the mustache say I can't find my knees.
Bob DylanI change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.
Bob DylanDESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about WILL COME TRUE. It's a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it's a fragile feeling, and you put it out there, then someone will kill it. It's best to keep that all inside.
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