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"I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail, poisoned in the bushes, blown out on the trail; hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn, "Come in," she said, "I'll give ya shelter from the storm.""
"In 1975,Bob Dylan was almost 10 years past his prime - and then he released the best album of his career, Blood on the Tracks. Written and recorded amid a painful divorce, Blood on the Tracks is proof that heartbreak makes great art - just as many of the albums that followed were the opposite."
"He swift don't win the race. It goes to the worthy, who can divide the word of truth."
"I'm used to writing songs and songs-I can fill em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book (Chronicles, Vol. 1), you gotta tell the truth, and it can't be misinterpreted."
"People are crazy and times are strange ... I used to care but things have changed"
"The picture you have in your mind of what you're about will come true."
"Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through."
"Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise. I mean, you're around awhile, you leave certain things to the young. Don't try to act like you're young. You could really hurt yourself."
"A cat's meow and cow's moo, I can recite them all."
"You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grinin"
"Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks."
"Happiness is not on my list of priorities. I just deal with day-to-day things. If I'm happy, I'm happy – and if I'm not, I don't know the difference... Knowing that you are the person you were put on this earth to be – that's much more important than just being happy."
"Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle."
"You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right, now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself, you decide for yourself."
"I'll remember you. When I've forgotten all the rest.You to me were true. You to me were the best."
"I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow."
"Don't criticize what you can't understand."
"The purpose of music is to elevate the spirit and inspire. Not to help push some product down your throat. It puts you in tune with your own existence. Sometimes you really don't know how you feel, but really good music can define how you feel... someone who's telling me where he's been that I haven't and what it's like there - somebody whose life I can feel."
"I kinda live where I find myself."
"If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show you the scars."