"We all like motorcycles to some degree."
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Bob Dylan quotes (page 21 of 44)
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"I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that."
"You 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."
"It's mighty funny. The end of time has just begun."
"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."
"They say every man needs protection They say every man must fall So, I swear I see my reflection Somewhere inside these walls... I shall be released."
"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."
"She's a hypnotist collector; you are a walking antique."
"Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things, but you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe."
"your problem is that wanna better word for world"
"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."
"I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place."
"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."
"You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever."
"The government's not going to create jobs. It doesn't have to. People have to create jobs."
"If I had wings, no one would ask me: should I fly?"
"I come from way north. We'd listen to radio shows all the time. I think I was the last generation, or pretty close to the last one, that grew up without TV."
"I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you from me."
"When I think of mystery, I don't think about myself. I think of the universe, like why does the moon rise when the sun falls? Caterpillars turn into butterflies? I really haven't remained a recluse."
"A record ... is a statement, it's its own statement, its own entity, rather than being about something else. If I was a painter ... I don't paint the chair, I would paint feelings about the chair."