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Bob Dylan quotes

Ocupation: Musician

Life: b. May 24, 1941

Birthday: May 24

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Jesus, that ear. He should donate it to The Smithsonian. Brian Wilson, he made all his records with four tracks, but you couldn't make his records if you had a hundred tracks today.

Topics: Jesus, Track, Today, Donate, Smithsonian

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Life has its ups and downs, and time has to be your partner. Really, time is your soul mate.

Topics: Soul, Partners, Mates

Quotation Bob Dylan All I can do is be me whoever that is Quotes

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

Topics: Hard Times, People, Accepting

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Some of the old folk singers used to phrase things in an interesting way, and then, I got my style from seeing a lot of outdoor-type poets, who would recite their poetry. When you don't have a guitar, you recite things differently, and there used to be quite a few poets in the jazz clubs, who would recite with a different type of attitude.

Topics: Attitude, Guitar, Interesting, Interesting Ways

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Life, Break Up, Music, Life Regret, Convenient

There's a lot of false prophets around and that's the trouble. People say they think they know what's right and other people get people to follow them because they have a certain type of charisma, and there's always people willing to take over. People want a leader. And there will be more and more of them.

Topics: Thinking, People, Leader, False Prophets

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

Topics: Doors, Needs, Hundred, Eye Opening, Overlooked

You have to work out where your place is. And who you are. But we're all spirit. That's all we are, we're just walking dressed up in a suit of skin, and we're going to leave that behind.

Topics: Work Out, Skins, Suits

There's beauty in the silver singing river There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty That I remember in my true love's eyes

Topics: Beauty, Beautiful, Eye, Being Beautiful, My True Love

I like the fans, but I don't feel an obligation that I have to be an example to them, like say maybe a baseball player would, or a football player or maybe some other type of musicians. I don't feel I have to really set an example that somebody else has to live up to.

Topics: Baseball, Football, Player

There is nothing so stable as change.

Topics: Freedom

I think of rock 'n' roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not Chicago blues, and modern pop.

Topics: Country, Thinking, Rocks, Chicago Blues

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Passion, Morning Routines

We don't see the people that vice destroys. We just see the glamour of it - everywhere we look, from billboard signs to movies, to newspapers, to magazines. We see the destruction of human life.

Topics: People, Vices, Looks

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.

Topics: Mean, Understanding, Sometimes

People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later, you have to see through it or you don't survive.

Topics: Ambition, People, Greed

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

Topics: Travel, Memories, Vacation, Fond Memories, Old Memories

Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise.

Topics: Wise, Passion, Men, Older People

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

Topics: Freedom, I Hate You, Sky, Chained, Hippi

A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.

source: - "Bob Dylan: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

Topics: Self, People, This Life, Self Sufficiency, Soul Mate

Everything passes, Everything changes, Just do what you think you should do.

source: - Song: To Ramona, Album: Another Side of Bob Dylan, 1964

Topics: Change, Thinking, Should

I can picture the color of the song, or the shape of it, or who it is that I'm trying to appeal to, in the song, and what I'm trying to, almost, reinforce my feelings for. And I know that sounds sort of vague and abstract, but I've got a handle on it when I'm doing it.

Topics: Song, Color, Feelings

Yes, and only if my own true love was waiting If I could hear his heart softly pounding Yes, and only if he was lying by me Would I lie in my bed once again.

Topics: Lying, Heart, Waiting

your problem is that wanna better word for world

Topics: World, Problem

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

Topics: Love, Cute Love, Dream, Hippi

May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.

source: - Song: Forever Young, Album: Planet Waves, 1974

Topics: Strong, Growing Up, Light, Forever Young, Be Young

It's not important what other people call you. If you yourself know you're a fake, that's tougher to live with.

Topics: People, Fake, Important

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

source: - Interview published with the "Biograph" album set, 1985.

Topics: Courage, Freedom, Hero, Freedom And Responsibility, Heroes Day

It's always disappointing when people decide for one reason or another that they don't like your work anymore, but you can't try to please people, because then you're just going to be doing - you'll never live it down, y'know it'll always be dogging you around - you might be being a fake about the whole thing.

Topics: People, Fake, Trying

I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's.

Topics: Changed, Changed My Life

I used to think it's better if you just live and die and no one knows who you are.

Topics: Thinking, Used, Just Live

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

Topics: Music, Song, Walks

When I was growing up - say in the fifties - the thirties to me didn't even exist. I couldn't even imagine them in any kind of way, so I don't expect anyone growing up now is gonna even understand what the sixties were all about, anymore than I could the thirties or twenties.

Topics: Growing Up, Twenties, Way

You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore.

Topics: Artist, Forgive Me, Poetry, Magnanimity, Rift

Sometimes you get out from behind the wheel and let someone else step on the gas.

Topics: Wheels, Steps, Sometimes

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

Topics: Song, Sound, Records

There 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.

Topics: Suffering, Degrees, Hunger

The first thing you notice about New Orleans are the burying grounds - the cemeteries - and they're a cold proposition, one of the best things there are here. Going by, you try to be as quiet as possible, better to let them sleep. Greek, Roman, sepulchres- palatial mausoleums made to order, phantomesque, signs and symbols of hidden decay - ghosts of women and men who have sinned and who've died and are now living in tombs. The past doesn't pass away so quickly here. You could be dead for a long time

Topics: Sleep, Past, Men, Burying, Mausoleum

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young. Back then I guess most of my influences could be thought of as eccentric. Mass media had no overwhelming reach so I was drawn to the traveling performers passing through.

Topics: Emotional, Media, People, Passing Through

People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book.

Topics: Book, People, Looks

The more you act the further you get away from the truth.

Topics: Get Away

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

Topics: Music, Ideas, People, Scrap

We shouldn't confuse singers and performers with actors. Actors will say, "My character this, and my character that." Like beating a dead horse. Who cares about the character? Just get up and act. You don't have to explain it to me.

Topics: Horse, Character, Who Cares, Beating A Dead Horse

You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.

Topics: Song, Writing, Pages

The Rolling Stones are truly the greatest rock and roll band in the world and always will be. The last too. Everything that came after them, metal, rap, punk, new wave, pop-rock, you name it... you can trace it all back to the Rolling Stones. They were the first and the last and no one's ever done it better.

Topics: Rap, Rocks, Rock And Roll, Rolling Stones

Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content.

source: - "Song: 'Brownsville Girl'". 1986.

Topics: Pain, People, Suffering

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

Topics: Inspirational, Positive, Memories

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

Topics: President, United States, Naked

I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

Topics: Fear, People, Silence, Accept Me

I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.

Topics: Depression, Mind

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

Topics: Inspiration

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.

Topics: Journey, Limbo, Nowhere To Turn

Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I've never thought about that before! He said, When you're not following me, you're resisting me.

Topics: Jesus, Bob, Follow Me

All the people we used to know, they're an illusion to me now.

Topics: Friendship, People, Illusion

The radio makes hideous sounds.

Topics: Sound, Radio, Hideous

I kinda live where I find myself.

But I would not feel so all alone, everybody must get stoned.

Topics: Drug, All Alone, Feels, Smoking Weed, Ganja

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

Topics: Home, Land, Cities

You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody...

Topics: Devil, May, Lord, Followership

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.

Topics: People, Poetry, Naked

All the money you made will never buy back your soul.

Topics: Soul, Made, Your Soul

If you don't underestimate me, I won't underestimate you.

source: - Song: Dear Landlord, Album: John Wesley Harding, 1967

Topics: Inspiring, Moving, Heart, Underestimate Me

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

Topics: Musician, Firsts, Poet, Writing Songs, Songwriters

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

Topics: Music, Jesus, Fame

If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and good. Folk songs had taught me that.

Topics: Song, Taught, Folks

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

Topics: War, Democracy, World, Ruling The World

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

Topics: Beauty, Patriotism, Should

... When it came time to hire a guitar player ... I didn't even have to think about it ... Mike Bloomfield was the best guitar player I'd ever heard...

Topics: Music, Player, Thinking

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

Topics: Mistake, Making Mistakes, Commit

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Topics: Truth, Lying, Add

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

source: - Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

Topics: Bullying, Purpose

Music attracts the angels in the universe.

Topics: Angel, Universe

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

Topics: Past, People, Identity

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

Topics: Wall, Book, People, Drawing Conclusions, Speak Softly

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

Topics: Memories, Future, Yesterday

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

Topics: Gratitude, Appreciation, Mean

Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter.

Topics: Song, People, Laughing

If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

Topics: Thinking, Answers, Bob

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

Topics: Life, Inspire, Stage

In songs, you have to tell people about something they didn't see and weren't there for, and you have to do it as if you were.

Topics: Song, People

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

Topics: Ambition, Order, Needs

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

Topics: Heart, Trying, Failing

No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.

Topics: Thieves, Life Is, Excited

Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.

Topics: Wall, War, Gun, Stop War, Cost Of War

You'll never be greater than yourself.

Topics: Adages

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?

Topics: Night, Play, Quiet

Let me ask you one question Is your money that good Will it buy you forgiveness Do you think that it could I think you will find When your death takes its toll All the money you made Will never buy back your soul

Topics: Thinking, Soul, Tolls

May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.

source: - Song: Forever Young

Topics: Song, Heart, May, Forever Young

Adulterers in churches and ***** in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up?

Topics: School, Church, Politics

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

Topics: Fathers Day, Home, Wife

Look, 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.

Topics: Sound, Culture, Looks, Mainstream Culture, Sound Of Music

The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The new order is Rapidly fadin'. And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin'.

Topics: Time, Past, Order

Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don't stand in the doorway Don't block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled There's a battle outside ragin'. It'll soon shake your windows And rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin'.

Topics: Hurt, Wall, Block

let me forget about today until tomorrow

Topics: Philosophy, Today, Tomorrow, Twist Of Fate, Windy

One should never be where one does not belong.

Topics: Profound, Doe, Should

Gonna change my way of thinking, make my self a different set of rules. Gonna put my good foot forward and stop being influenced by fools.

Topics: Inspirational, Thinking, Self

Your old road is rapidly aging. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand, For the times they are a-changin'.

Topics: Hands, Aging, Please

they say every man needs protection, they say every man must fall. yet I swear I see my reflection,some place high above this wall.....and someday I shall be released.

Topics: Wall, Fall, Reflection

The future for me is already a thing of the past - You were my first love and you will be my last

Topics: Love, Past, Lasts

And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns... that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn't have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale... that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorientate myself. p.71

Topics: Believe, Creativity, Patterns

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

source: - FaceBook post by Bob Dylan from Feb 10, 2010

Topics: Hippie, Blow, Wind, Weathermen

Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane...

Topics: Ideas, Insane, Driving

Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.

Topics: Light, Bulbs, Light Bulb

Don't follow leaders.

Topics: Leader

Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game.

Topics: Land, Games, Justice

How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.

Topics: Travel, Home, Rolling, Rolling Stones

the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on

source: - "Guns N' Roses DJ Ashba: On Overcoming Obstacles with a Guitar". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

DESTINY 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.

Topics: Destiny, Self, Feelings

He not busy being born is busy dying.

source: - "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" (song) (1965)

Topics: Life, Happy Birthday, Music, Self Discovery, Blues Music

Steal a little, and they put you in jail. Steal a lot, and they make you king.

Topics: Kings, Jail, Politics

I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame And every time I pass that way I always hear my name

Topics: Flames, Names, Temptation

I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.

Topics: Song, Singing, Terrible

The picture you have in your mind of what you're about will come true.

Topics: Mind

We have never arrived. We are in a constant state of becoming.

Topics: Yoga, Becoming, States

I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself.

Topics: Believe, Voice, Smoking

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

Topics: Clouds, Next, Moments, Pensive

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

Topics: Graduation, Home, College

I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred.

Topics: Hate, Men, Hatred

It's hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

Topics: May, Tomorrow

Bent 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.

Topics: Song, Pliers, Care

Got no religion. Tried a bunch of different religions. The churches are divided. Can't make up their minds and neither can I.

Topics: Mind, Church, Different, Different Religions

It's very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself don't dig you.

Topics: People, Tire

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Topics: Truth, Honesty, School

May you stay Forever Young

Topics: Birthday, Forever, May

The people in my songs are all me.

Topics: Song, People

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

source: - Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Sunglasses, Lips, Sometimes

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

Topics: Ocean, Heart, Dark

Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth. You're an idiot babe, it's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.

Topics: Friendship, Moving, Wind, Wind Blowing

Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them.

Topics: Want, Formulas

I hurt easy, I just don't show it. You can hurt someone and not even know it.

Topics: Hurt, Easy, Shows, Hurt Feelings, Hurts Someone

Somebody had to be Bob Dylan. I guess I was best equipped to do the job.

Topics: Jobs, Bob, Dylan

How many roads must a man walk down.. Before you can call him a Man..

Topics: Men, Walks, Cannons, Rhetorical Question

If you need somebody you can trust, trust yourself

Topics: Needs, Trust Yourself

You can't be wise and in love at the same time.

Topics: Wise, Time, Being Wise

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

Topics: Music, People, Fats, Folk Music, Fat People

Everybody 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.

Topics: Book, Might, Action, Scribbles

every pleasure's got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don't complain

Topics: Pain, Complaining, Pay

Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards

Topics: Thinking, World, Prison

The times they are a-changing.

Topics: Time

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Topics: Love, America, Doe

How many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free...

Topics: Freedom, Years, People

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

Topics: Song, Men, Popular Song

There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief...

Topics: Thieves, Way, Kind, Battlestar Galactica

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.

Topics: Life, Kings, Jail

May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong, may you stay forever young.

Topics: Strong, Forever, May

There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better.

Topics: New Orleans

Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through.

Topics: Arrows, Truth Is, Adages

Your eyes are like two jewels in the sky.

Topics: Eye, Jewels, Sky

Your mind is a your temple, keep it beautiful and free. Don't let an egg get laid in it by something you can't see.

Topics: Beautiful, Education, Eggs

Chaos is a friend of mine.

Topics: Chaos

When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.

Topics: Giving Up, Self Esteem

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.

Topics: Music, Religious, Philosophy

I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.

source: - Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

Topics: Men, Thinking, Done

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

Topics: Music, Ocean, Sinking

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Death, Work, Equality, Equality For All, Fidgeting

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.

Topics: Music, Running, Land

Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

Topics: Art, Inspire, Purpose, Purpose Of Art, Perpetual Motion

I just try to understand that tomorrow is another day.

Topics: Trying, Another Day, Tomorrow, Tomorrow Is Another Day

It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people.

Topics: People, Cameras, Way, Wrong Way

How many times have you heard someone say If I had his money I'd do things my way Hmm, but little they know Hmm, it's so hard to find One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind.

Topics: Money, Men, Mind

It's not a house, it's a home.

Topics: Home, House

Loneliness Got a mind of its own The more people around The more you feel alone

Topics: Loneliness, People, Mind

There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them In this age of fiberglass I'm searching for a gem The crystal ball up on the wall hasn't shown me nothing yet I've paid the price of solitude, but at last I'm out of debt

Topics: Wall, Loneliness, Solitude, Crystal Ball

An artist has got to 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. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you'll sort of be alright.

Topics: Thinking, Artist, Long

I was sick of the way my lyrics had been extrapolated, their meanings subverted into polemics and that I had been anointed as the Big Bubba of Rebellion, High Priest of Protest, the Duke of Disobedience, Leader of the Freeloaders, Kaiser of Apostasy, Archbishop of Anarchy, the Big Cheese. Horrible titles any way you want to look at it. All code words for Outlaw.

Topics: Sick, Leader, Dukes, Polemics, Apostasy

People 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?

Topics: People, Criticism, Doe, Does It Matter

Oh, the inmates and the prisoners I found they were my kind And it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind But the jails they were too crowded Institutions overflowed So they turned me loose to walk upon Life's hurried tangled road

Topics: Jail, Tangled, Mind

God bless them pretty women, I wish they was mine, Their breath is as sweet, The dew on the vine.

Topics: Sweet, Women, Pretty Woman

Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel. You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels.

Topics: Men, Poverty, Wheels, Lonesome

Beyond here lies nothin' But the mountains of the past

Topics: Lying, Past, Mountain

You get older. You start having hopes for other people rather than yourself.

Topics: People, Having Hope

The atom bomb fueled the entire world that came after it. It showed that indiscriminate killing and indiscriminate homicide on a mass level was possible ... whereas if you look at warfare up until that point, you had to see somebody to shoot them or maim them, you had to look at them. You don't have to do that anymore.

Topics: Atoms, Warfare, Looks, Atom Bomb

Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth. None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.

Topics: Wine, Earth, Lines

Old New York City is a friendly old town From Washington Heights to Harlem on down There's a-mighty many people all millin' all around They'll kick you when you're up and knock you when you're down It's hard times in the city Livin' down in New York town

Topics: New York, Hard Times, Cities, Old New York

It may look like I'm moving but I'm standing still.

Topics: Moving, Looks, May, Standing Still

The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Topics: Wind, Answers

I'm used to writing songs and songs-I can fill em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book (Chronicles, Vol. 1), you gotta tell the truth, and it can't be misinterpreted.

Topics: Song, Book, Writing, Chronicles, Misinterpreted

The National Bank at profit sells road maps for the soul.

Topics: Soul, Maps, Politics, Road Maps

I got this grave yard woman.

Topics: Yards, Graves

Happiness 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.

Topics: Differences, Knowing, Priorities

The battle outside raging will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.

Topics: Wall, Future, Battle, Premonition, Your Wall

Warlords of sorrow and queens of tomorrow will offer their heads for a prayer. You can't find no salvation, you have no expectations anytime, anyplace, anywhere.

Topics: Queens, Prayer, Future, Warlords

Some people are called to be a good sailor. Some people have a calling to be a good tiller of the land. Some people are called to be a good friend. You have to be the best at whatever you are called at. Whatever you do. You ought to be the best at it - highly skilled. It's about confidence, not arrogance. You have to know that you're the best whether anybody else tells you or not. And that you'll be around, in one way or another, longer than anybody else. Somewhere inside of you, you have to believe that.

Topics: Believe, Good Friend, Land, You Re The Best

Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features.

Topics: Compliment

There's been rumors of war and wars that have been The meaning of life has been lost in the wind And some people thinkin' that the end is close by 'Stead of learnin' to live they are learnin' to die

Topics: War, Wind, People

City's just a jungle; more games to play Trapped in the heart of it, tryin' to get away I was raised in the country, I been workin' in the town I been in trouble ever since I set my suitcase down

Topics: Country, Heart, Games, Trapped

There's a whole lot of people in trouble tonight From the disease of conceit Whole lot of people seeing double tonight From the disease of conceit Give ya delusions of grandeur And a evil eye Give you the idea that You're too good to die Then they bury you from your head to your feet From the disease of conceit

Topics: Eye, Ideas, Feet, Evil Eye, Delusions Of Grandeur

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

Topics: Death, Children, Hate, Burying

Well now what's the use in dreamin' You got better things to do Dreams never did work for me anyway Even when they did come true

Topics: Dream, Use, Wells, Better Things To Do

And I'll know my song well before I start singing

Topics: Song, Singing, Wells

My songs are personal music, they're not communal. I wouldn't want people singing along with me. It would sound funny. I'm not playing campfire meetings. I don't remember anyone singing along with Elvis, Carl Perkins or Little Richard.

Topics: Song, People, Singing, Campfire

I practice a faith that's been long abandoned Ain't no altars on this long and lonesome road

Topics: Faith, Practice, Long, Lonesome

Every day is the same thing out the door Feel further away then ever before Some things in life, it gets too late to learn Well, I'm lost somewhere I must have made a few bad turns

Topics: Life, Doors, Too Late

The whole world's a bottle, And life's but a dram, When the bottle gets empty, It sure ain't worth a damn.

Topics: Life, Bottles, World

There's danger in this open world where men strive to be free, and to me the greatest danger was in society.

Topics: Men, World, Politics

Shedding off one more layer of skin, Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within.

Topics: Skins, Layers, Steps, Self Injury

The song was there before me, before I came along. I just sorta came down and just sorta took it down with a pencil, but it was there before I came around.

Topics: Song, Down And, Pencils

You've got to lose your passion for dumbness.

Topics: Passion, Interesting, Dumbness

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.

Topics: Cities, Mind, Mexico, Mexico City

I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word.

Topics: Poet, Trapeze, Trapeze Artists

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