"I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans."
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"If you don't have to write songs, why write them? I've got enough where I don't really feel the urge to write anything additional."
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"Back seat drivers don’t know the feel of the wheel but they sho’ know how to make a fuss" Bob Dylan/Bonnie Raitt, “Let’s Keep It Between Us,” 1982"
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"Any real Bob Dylan fan would sleep with Jonah Lehrer."
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"Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount, But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts."
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"They're selling postcards of the hanging They're painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town Here comes the blind commissioner They've got him in a trance One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker The other is in his pants And the riot squad they're restless They need somewhere to go As Lady and I look out tonight From Desolation Row."
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"Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking 'bout the government."
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"Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. Around any corner, there's a promise of something daring and ideal and things are just getting going. There's something obscenely joyful behind every door, either that or somebody crying with their head in in their hands. A lazy rhythm looms in the dreamy air and the atmosphere pulsates with bygone duels, past-life romance, comrades requesting comrades to aid them in some way. You can't see it, but you know it's there"
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"I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you."
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"I love Country Music but what happened to it?"
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"They kill people here who stand up for their rights The system's just too damned corrupt It's always the same, the name of the game Is who do you know higher up"
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"There's eyes behind the mirrors in empty places."
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"Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder"
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"If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the Nobel Prize."
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"The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan's hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of holy fools and righteous thieves - the kind of imagery that Dylan's later work would explore more fully."
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"I see the turning of the page, curtain rising on a new age, see the groom still waiting at the altar."
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""Tangled Up in Blue," shifts perspective several times during the song to tell a "tangled" version of [Bob] Dylan's marriage and dissolution."
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"America was founded on the backs of slaves."
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"It's east to see without lookin' too far that not much is really sacred."
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"Look, you know i don't wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn't make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious/."
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