Quotes from Bob Dylan

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You can't be wise and in love at the same time. – Bob Dylan, No Direction Home (2005) Directed by Martin Scorsese.

Well, the devil's in the alley, mule's in the stall Say anything you wanna, I have heard it all. -Bob Dylan

The place had an overpowering presence of literature and you couldn't help but lose your passion for dumbness.

the story didn't make any sense the bible is full of these things. a lot of those old kings and leaders had many wives and concubines and Hosea the prophet was even married to a prostitute and it didn't stop him for being a holy man

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours" I said that

I don't know what everybody else was fantasizing about but what I was fantasizing about was a nine-to-five existence, a house on a tree-lined block with a white picket fence, pink roses in the backyard. [...] After a while you learn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature cannot touch with decay

Sometimes the things that you liked the best and that have meant the most to you are the things that meant nothing at all to you when you first heard or saw them.

I'm listening to Neil Young, I gotta turn up the sound. Someone's always yellin', 'Turn him down'. -- Highlands from Time Out of Mind (1997)

Now you see this one-eyed midget Shouting the word "NOW" And you say, "For what reason?" And he says, "How?" And you say, "What does this mean?" And he screams back, "You're a cow Give me some milk Or else go home

I had no time for romance. I turned away from the window, from the wintry sun, crossed through the room, went to the stove and made and poured myself a cup of hot chocolate and then clicked on the radio

The rocks on the sand will proudly stand The hour that the ship comes in.

The whole world's a bottle, And life's but a dram, When the bottle gets empty, It sure ain't worth a damn.

ah mama what care the dead t drink up their own toasts? spirits slurping candle syrup affects whose emptiness?

It was like he'd been born and raised on Walden Pond where everything was hunky-dory, and I'd come out of the dark demonic woods, same forest, just a different way of looking at things.

Raspberry, strawberry, lemon and lime What do I care Blueberry, apple, cherry, pumpkin and plum Call me for dinner Honey, I'll be there

God said to Abraham, Kill me a son Abe say, Man, you must be puttin' me on God say, No, Abe say, What? God say, You can do what you want Abe, but Next time you see me comin', you better run

Setelah beberapa saat, kita baru tahu bahwa privasi adalah hal yang bisa kita jual, tetapi kita tidak bisa membelinya kembali.

Windows were shakin' all night in my dreams/ Everything was exactly the way that it seems/ Woke up this morning and I looked at the same old page/ Same ol' rat race/ Life in the same ol' cage.

No martyr is among ye now | Whom you can call your own | So go on your way accordingly | But know you're not alone.

I am mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it's the only place where I'm happy.

Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than people who are most content.

Mama, take this badge off of me I can't use it anymore It's getting dark, too dark for me to see I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door Mama, put my guns in the ground I can't shoot them anymore That long black cloud is comin' down I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door