Time Quotes by Bob Dylan
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Bob Dylan’s thoughts on time jump from feeling joyful in one instant to pensive in the next, as if a passing cloud could shift his mood. He admits he often doesn’t know what he’s saying, and he sees fame as a trap that pushes him back toward the past. He also feels the future is already a thing of the past.
![“One night around that time, at Hammersmith, Bob Dylan was about to go into [his 1963 classic] 'Don't Think Twice, It's Alright.He said, 'Hey, Bucky! Play mandolin on this.' I am not really a mandolin player; I could only play in certain keys. Halfway through, he stops the band, turns to the…” quote by Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/717/bob-dylan-168_alright_one-night-around-that-time-at-hammersmit_2648436.jpg)
![“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.” quote by Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e71/bob-dylan-168_bob_the-joker-here-all-along-the-watchtower_384180.jpg)
![“[In 1951] we were also told that the Russians could be parachuting from planes over our town at any time. These were the same Russians that my uncles had fought alongside only a few years earlier. Now they had become monsters who were coming to slit our throats and incinerate us. It seemed…” quote by Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d09/bob-dylan-168_afraid_in-1951-we-were-also-told-that-the-russi_3052465.jpg)
