Bob Dylan

Singer-songwriter

Bob Dylan is an iconic American singer-songwriter known for his profound lyrics that explore themes of freedom and identity, particularly in songs like 'Blowin' in the Wind'.

Born
May 24, 1941
Quotes
872
Rank
#313

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"Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan."

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"When you got nothin' / You got nothin' to lose."

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"Oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies."

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"If I had the stars from the darkest night and the diamonds from the deepest ocean, I'd forsake them all for your sweet kiss, for that's all I'm wishin' to be ownin'."

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"Mama's in the factory, she ain't got no shoes. Daddy's in the alley, he's looking for food."

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"There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun, and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy and God I know I'm one."

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"The ghosts race towards the light, you can almost hear the heavy breathing spirits, all determined to get somewhere. New Orleans, unlike a lot of places you go back to and that don't have the magic anymore, still has got it. Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. You can't see it, but you know it's here. Somebody's always sinking."

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"She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall. She's nobody's child, the law can't touch her at all."

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"How many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky? Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry? Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows That too many people have died? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind."

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"A million faces at my feet but all I see are dark eyes."

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"So, I don't know. I think so. It's all in the heart, whatever keeps you that way. Keeps you forever young. Forever young doesn't necessarily mean that you don't grow old, but you just have some contact with what put you where you are. You know, keep some type of contact. Anyway..."

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"Well, the moral of the story, The moral of this song, Is simply that one should never be Where one does not belong. So when you see your neighbor carryin' somethin', Help him with his load, And don't go mistaking Paradise For that home across the road."

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"When you got nothing, you got nothin' to lose You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal."

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"Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us, he's content when you're under his thumb. Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him, to survive it you play deaf and dumb."

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"Crimson flames tied through my ears rolling high and mighty traps, pounced with fire on flaming roads using ideas as my maps."

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