Quotes from Bob Dylan

I had stood outside of Poe's house on 3rd street, too, and had done the same thing, staring mournfully up at the windows. The city was like some uncarved block without any name or shape and it showed no favoritism. Everything was always new, always changing. It was never the same old crowd upon the streets.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.

abe said where d'you want this killin done / God said out on highway 61

I never took much, I never asked for your crutch, Now don't ask for mine.

I can't think for you, you'll have to decide, whether Judas Iscariot had god on his side

If I was building any new kind of life to live, it really didn't seem that way. It's not as if I had turned in any old one to live it. If anything, I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to see all at once, like all the books in the library -everything laying around on all the tables. You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right.

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet? We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it Lights flicker from the opposite loft In this room the heat pipes just cough The country music station plays soft But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off Just Louise and her lover so entwined And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind

Serve God and be cheerful, look upward, beyond, beyond the darkness of masks, the surprises of dawn, in the deep green grasses of the blood-stained world.

ll the merry little elves can go hang themselves My faith is as cold as can be I'm stacked high to the roof, and I'm not without proof If you don't believe me, come see. You think i'm blue I think so too In my words you'll find no guile The game's gotten old The deck's gone cold And i'm gonna have to put you down for a while The game's gotten old The deck's gone cold I'm gonna have to put you down for a while -Bob Dylan, "Huck's Tune

Sweet Goddess, born of a blinding light and a changing wind, don't be modest - you know who you are and where you've been.

When are you gonna wake up and strengthened the things that remain.

Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp.

Well...you know, you can influence all kinds of people, but sometimes it gets in the way -- especially if somebody is accusing you of influencing somebody that you had no interest in influencing in the first place.

I'm just average, common too. I'm just like him and the same as you. I'm everybody's brother and son. I'm no different than anyone. Bob Dylan - Talking WWIII Blues

We are so scared of losing everything that doesn't mean anything.

We're going all the way 'til the wheels fall off and burn.

Inside the museums, | Infinity goes up on trial | Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while

James Joyce seemed like the most arrogant man who ever lived, had both his eyes wide open and great faculty of speech, but what he say, I knew not what.

Oh you five and ten cent women With nothin' in your heads I got a real gal I'm lovin' And Lord I'll love her till I'm dead Go away from my door and my window too Right now

Once upon a time You dressed so fine

It's a shadowy world, skies are slippery grey. A woman just gave birth to a prince today and dressed him in scarlet. He'll put the priest in his pocket, put the blade to the heat, take the motherless children off the street and place them at the feet of a harlot.

While one who sings with his tongue on fire Gargles in the rat race choir Bent out of shape from society's pliers Cares not to come up any higher But rather get you down in the hole That he's in.

In another life, I could have been you, she'd say. Yeah, but then I wouldn't have been the same person in that life. Yeah, that's right. Let's work on it.

I wanna say hello to all the ex-hippies tonight. I've never been a hippie myself but I'm an honorary hippie.