"Good and bad, I define these terms, quite clear, no doubt, somehow."
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"I can't see my reflection in the waters, I can't speak the sounds that show no pain. I can't hear the echo of my footsteps, or can't remember the sound of my own name."
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"When you're sad and when you're lonely and you haven't got a friend, just remember that death is not the end."
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"Since my feet are now fast and point away from the past, I'll bid farewell and be down the line."
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"It's not dark yet But it's getting there"
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"A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they got a lot of forks 'n knives. And they got to cut somethin'."
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"Yes, and only if my own true love was waiting If I could hear his heart softly pounding Yes, and only if he was lying by me Would I lie in my bed once again."
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"Well, it's always been my nature to take chances My right hand drawing back while my left hand advances"
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"I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken, I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children, And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall."
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"Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast."
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"His [Bob Dylan] humour was dry and splendid."
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"Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes."
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"I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams."
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"They asked me for some collateral and I pulled down my pants."
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"I’m in awe of McCartney. He’s about the only one that I am in awe of. He can do it all. And he’s never let up... He’s just so damn effortless."
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"I was sick of the way my lyrics had been extrapolated, their meanings subverted into polemics and that I had been anointed as the Big Bubba of Rebellion, High Priest of Protest, the Duke of Disobedience, Leader of the Freeloaders, Kaiser of Apostasy, Archbishop of Anarchy, the Big Cheese. Horrible titles any way you want to look at it. All code words for Outlaw."
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"God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free."
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"I find C major to be the key of strength, but also the key of regret. E major is the key of confidence. A-flat major is the key of renunciation."
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"There would be brilliant songs, but, as [Bob] Dylan admitted on the recent Martin Scorsese documentary about him (No Direction Home), the specific muse that inspired "It's Alright Ma" would not return."
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"The only person you have to think about lying twice to is either yourself or to God. The press isn't either of them. And I just figured they're irrelevant."
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