Bob Dylan Quotes

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• ... we're living in a Machiavellian world, whether we like it or we don't.
• For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.
• 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…
• You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.
• There's enough songs for people to listen to, if they want to listen to songs. For every man, woman and child on earth, they could…
• That's another way of writing a song, of course. Just talking to somebody that ain't there. That's the best way. That's the truest way. Then…
• Come mothers and fathers. Throughout the land and don't criticize what you can't understand, your sons and your daughters are beyond your command. Your old…
• I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to…
• My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as long as it…
• Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it.
• If you like someone's work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to. Anyone who wants to be…
• Suddenly I found you and the spirit in me sings, Don't have to look no further, You're the soul of many things.
• I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on…
• Sometimes the silence can be like thunder.
• You're better than no one and no one is better than you.
• My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune.
• Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes…
• Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.
• What looks large from a distance, close up ain’t never that big.
• Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it’s you who must keep it satisfied.

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