"So happy just to be alive, Underneath the sky of blue, On this new morning, new morning, On this new morning with you."
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"What politics I ever learned, I learned in the streets, because it was part of the environment."
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"People think that singing and playing is easy. It's not. It's easy to strum along, but if you actually want to really play, where it's important, that's a hard thing and not too many people are good at it."
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"You know what they say about bein' nice to the right people on the way up Sooner or later you gonna meet them comin' down"
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"Whatever colors you have in your mind, I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine."
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"Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/ You will not die, its not poison -Tombstone Blues"
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"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."
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"Romance never does go out of fashion. It's radical. But it's out of step with the current media culture."
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"Now the wintertime is coming The windows are filled with frost I went to tell everybody But I could not get across Well, I wanna be your lover, baby I don't wanna be your boss Don't say I never warned you When your train gets lost."
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"There were only a few seats left in coach and Bob found himself seated next to a young female fan. 'I can't believe I'm sitting next to Bob Dylan!' she screamed.'Pinch yourself,' said Bob.""
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"[Bob Dylan] was rarely tender and seldom reached out to anticipate another's needs."
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"Being singer is different than being an actor, where you call up sources from your own experience that you can apply to whatever Shakespeare drama you're in. But an actor is pretending to be somebody, a singer isn't. And that's the difference. Singers today have to sing songs where there's very little emotion involved. That and the fact that they have to sing hit records from years gone by doesn't leave a lot of room for any kind of intelligent creativity."
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"Bob Dylan was again an entirely new person - this time old, craggy, cynical, and world-weary, as in "Not Dark Yet"."
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"I never did use earphones until into the Eighties or Nineties. I don't like to use earphones. I've never heard anybody sing with earphones effectively. They just give you a false sense of security. A lot of us don't need earphones. I don't think Springsteen or Mick do. But other people more or less have given in. But they ought not to. They don't need to. Especially if they have a good band."
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"I'm mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it's the only place where I'm happy."
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"I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to."
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"Once I went into songwriting, I figured I had to - I couldn't be a hellfire rock 'n' roller. But I could write hellfire lyrics."
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"I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street."
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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."
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"I don't know if I call myself a poet or not. I would like to, but I'm not really qualified to make that decision, because I come in on such a back door, that I don't know what a Robert Frost or a [John] Keats or a T.S. Eliot would really think of my stuff."
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