"Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them."
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"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 it just becomes a question of how heroic your speech is. To me, it's something to strive after."
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"Somebody had to be Bob Dylan. I guess I was best equipped to do the job."
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"Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone."
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"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'."
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"She had bullets in her eyes and they fired."
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"How many roads must a man walk down Before your can call him a man? . . . The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind."
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"On the cliffs of your wild cat charms I'm riding."
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"But I would not feel so all alone, everybody must get stoned."
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"A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet."
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"I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred."
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"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."
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"My love ,she speaks like silence, without ideals or violence. She doesn't have to say she's faithful, yet she's true."
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"Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane."
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"And there's no one there to dry your tears. I could hold you for a million years. To make you feel my love."
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"Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands"
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"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"
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"You don't have to be afraid of looking into my face. We've done nothing to each other that time will not erase."
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"I was lingering out on the pavement. There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him . . . I felt done for, an empty burned-out wreck . . . Wherever I am, I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows."
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"My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect."
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