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Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean. By Bob Dylan

You can be known as the most beautiful womanwho ever crawled across cut glass to make a deal By Bob Dylan

So happy just to be alive, Underneath the sky of blue, On this new morning, new morning, On this new morning with you. By Bob Dylan

I feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet, putting her in a wheel-barrow and wheeling her down the street. By Bob Dylan

You got men who can't hold peace and women who can't control their tongues. The rich seduce the poor, and the old seduce the young. By Bob Dylan

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) By Bob Dylan

And for each unharmful gentle soul misplaced inside a jail ... By Bob Dylan

I love Country Music but what happened to it? By Bob Dylan

Mama, put my guns in the ground, I can't shoot them anymore. That long black cloud is coming down. By Bob Dylan

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. By Bob Dylan

In harmony with cosmic sea, true love needs no company. It can cure the soul, it can make it whole, if dogs run free. By Bob Dylan

Well now what's the use in dreamin' You got better things to do Dreams never did work for me anyway Even when they did come true By Bob Dylan

It's a wicked life, but what the hell, the stars ain't falling down. By Bob Dylan

Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you. By Bob Dylan

Done laid around, done stayed aroundThis old town too longAnd it seems like I've got to travel on By Bob Dylan

She speaks with a stutter and she and she walks with a hop. I don't know why I love her, but I just can't stop. By Bob Dylan

You're gonna have to serve somebody. By Bob Dylan

Life has its ups and downs, and time has to be your partner. Really, time is your soul mate. By Bob Dylan

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

Everyone is making love or else expecting rain By Bob Dylan

The sun's not yellow, its chicken! By Bob Dylan

If I lived my life by what others were thinkin', the heart inside me would've died. By Bob Dylan

If you choose to live outside the law, you must obey the law more stringently than anyone. By Bob Dylan

Loneliness Got a mind of its own The more people around The more you feel alone By Bob Dylan

reality has too many heads By Bob Dylan

The country music stations plays soft but there's nothing, really nothing to turn off. By Bob Dylan

Silvio, I gotta go, find out something only dead men know. By Bob Dylan

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system. By Bob Dylan

Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun. By Bob Dylan

I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy. By Bob Dylan

At the final end you won the war after losing every battle. By Bob Dylan

Well, I try my best to be just like I am,But everybody wants you to be just like them,They sing while you slave and I just get bored By Bob Dylan

I'm a liberal to a degree, I want everybody to be free. But if you think that I'll let Barry Goldwater move in next door. By Bob Dylan

You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody ... By Bob Dylan

Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth. None of them along the line know what any of it is worth. By Bob Dylan

You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future. By Bob Dylan

The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode By Bob Dylan

I'm not going to read any of these magazines. I mean, because they've just got too much to lose by printing the truth. You know that ... By Bob Dylan

There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun, and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy and God I know I'm one. By Bob Dylan

And if anybody asks me is it easy to forgetI'll say it is easily done,you just pick anyone,and pretend that you never have met By Bob Dylan

I'm in love with my second cousin. By Bob Dylan

You might be a rock and roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage. By Bob Dylan

God bless them pretty women, I wish they was mine, Their breath is as sweet, The dew on the vine. By Bob Dylan

Play it fuckin' loud! By Bob Dylan

My love ,she speaks like silence, without ideals or violence. She doesn't have to say she's faithful, yet she's true. By Bob Dylan

Can't keep track of it no more, son's becoming husbands to their mothers, and old men turning your daughters into whores. By Bob Dylan

The woman I love she got a prize fighter nose, cauliflower ears and a run in her hose. By Bob Dylan

The future for me is already a thing of the past -You were my first love and you will be my last By Bob Dylan

The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money. By Bob Dylan

I'm trying to get as far way from myself as I can.........from Things Have Changed by Bob Dylan (not a book but .........) By Bob Dylan

People are crazy and times are strange ... I used to care but things have changed By Bob Dylan

Romance never does go out of fashion. It's radical. But it's out of step with the current media culture. By Bob Dylan

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

Once I went into songwriting, I figured I had to - I couldn't be a hellfire rock 'n' roller. But I could write hellfire lyrics. By Bob Dylan

I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you from me. By Bob Dylan

Don't criticize what you can't understand. By Bob Dylan

They asked me for some collateral and I pulled down my pants. By Bob Dylan

You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies. One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes. By Bob Dylan

It's mighty funny. The end of time has just begun. By Bob Dylan

New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice. By Bob Dylan

Let the dead bury the dead, your time will come. By Bob Dylan

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast. By Bob Dylan

Dead man, dead manWhen will you arise?Cobwebs in your mindDust upon your eyes By Bob Dylan

When you're sad and when you're lonely and you haven't got a friend, just remember that death is not the end. By Bob Dylan

I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door. By Bob Dylan

For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely. By Bob Dylan

For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die? Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do. By Bob Dylan

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

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all. By Bob Dylan

Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/You will not die, its not poison-Tombstone Blues By Bob Dylan

Suddenly I found you and the spirit in me sings, Don't have to look no further, You're the soul of many things. By Bob Dylan

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot. By Bob Dylan

Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must. By Bob Dylan

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

You're a cow Give me some milk Or else go home By Bob Dylan

Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame. By Bob Dylan

Every brain is civilized, Every nerve is analyzed, Everything is criticized when you are in need. By Bob Dylan

I really don't like to hurt myself. I have a good understanding with all the women who have been in my life, whether I see them occasionally or not. By Bob Dylan

I like spiritual songs. They struck me as truthful and serious. They brought me down to earth and they lifted me up all in the same moment. By Bob Dylan

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. By Bob Dylan

The enemy is subtle, how be it we are so deceived, when truth's in our hearts and we still don't believe. By Bob Dylan

Why wait any longer for the one you loveWhen he's standing in front of you By Bob Dylan

I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin'. When she said, hey man, you crazy or somethin'? By Bob Dylan

They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes. By Bob Dylan

The P'lice Department hounded him, they called him Mr. Smith. They got him on conspiracy, they were never quite sure who with. By Bob Dylan

The only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row. By Bob Dylan

The tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies, and the bright light of salvation shines in dark and empty skies. By Bob Dylan

Crimson flames tied through my ears rolling high and mighty traps, pounced with fire on flaming roads using ideas as my maps. By Bob Dylan

God is in heaven, and we all want what's his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is. By Bob Dylan

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage. By Bob Dylan

May you have a strong foundation when the winds of change shift ... and may you be forever young. By Bob Dylan

Raspberry, strawberry, lemon and limeWhat do I careBlueberry, apple, cherry, pumpkin and plumCall me for dinnerHoney, I'll be there By Bob Dylan

On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game. By Bob Dylan

Everything that I'm saying You can say it just as good By Bob Dylan

Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it's you who must keep it satisfied. By Bob Dylan

It's east to see without lookin' too far that not much is really sacred. By Bob Dylan

Like the lion tears the flesh off a man, so can a woman who passes herself off as a male. By Bob Dylan

You five and ten cent women with nothing in your heads, I got a real gal I'm loving and Lord I'll love her 'til I'm dead. By Bob Dylan

Well the Lone Ranger and Tonto, they are riding down the line fixing everybody's troubles, everybody except mine. By Bob Dylan

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

I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road. By Bob Dylan

You want to know about creativity? Just go out and buy that book Imagine by Jonah Lehrer. It's only $29.00 in hardcover. By Bob Dylan

Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time ... By Bob Dylan

Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship. Ain't that just like my heart, babe. When you kissed my lips? By Bob Dylan

There's eyes behind the mirrors in empty places. By Bob Dylan

Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes. By Bob Dylan

I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's. By Bob Dylan

Black is the Color and none is the number By Bob Dylan

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. By Bob Dylan

Yet there's no one to beat you | No one t' defeat you | 'Cept the thoughts of yourself feeling bad By Bob Dylan

It's easier to be me than someone else. But just like most famous people, I just want to be left alone most of the time. By Bob Dylan

Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it's available. When the cost comes down, look out! By Bob Dylan

The inmates and prisoners, I found they were my kind, and it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind. By Bob Dylan

I didn't come out of a cereal box. By Bob Dylan

It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain't got any friends. By Bob Dylan

Ain't it hard when you discover that, he wasn't really where it's at, after he took from you everything he could steal. How does it feel? By Bob Dylan

I don't want no pickle. Just want to ride my motorcycle. By Bob Dylan

The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handle By Bob Dylan

There doesn't seem to be any tomorrow. Every time I wake up, no matter in what position, it's always been today. By Bob Dylan

I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to. By Bob Dylan

Just a reminder, if you tell anyone about what happened with Jonah last night, I'll destroy all of my writing and never play music again. By Bob Dylan

The picture you have in your mind of what you're about will come true. By Bob Dylan

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be. By Bob Dylan

You know what they say about bein' nice to the right people on the way up Sooner or later you gonna meet them comin' down By Bob Dylan

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. By Bob Dylan

Remember when you're out there trying to heal the sick, that you must always first forgive them. By Bob Dylan

I just don't hear anyone else making the music I'm making in my head, so I'll have to do it myself. By Bob Dylan

Truth is like a waterslide-only fun when it's slippery and wet. By Bob Dylan

The handmade blade, the child's balloonEclipses both the sun and moonTo understand you know too soonThere's no sense in trying. By Bob Dylan

Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way. By Bob Dylan

Any real Bob Dylan fan would sleep with Jonah Lehrer. By Bob Dylan

All I've got is a red guitar, three chords and the truth. By Bob Dylan

I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible. By Bob Dylan

I used to think it's better if you just live and die and no one knows who you are. By Bob Dylan

Don't Ask Me Nothing About Nothing, I Just Might Tell You the Truth By Bob Dylan

Call me any name you like I will never deny it. By Bob Dylan

Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed, dignity never been photographed. By Bob Dylan

Mama's in the factory, she ain't got no shoes. Daddy's in the alley, he's looking for food. By Bob Dylan

The naked truth is still taboo. By Bob Dylan

Sing your praise of progress and the doom machine, the naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen. By Bob Dylan

Broken bottles, broken plates, broken switches, broken gates. Broken dishes, broken parts, streets are filled with broken hearts. By Bob Dylan

You don't have to be afraid of looking into my face. We've done nothing to each other that time will not erase. By Bob Dylan

There's always one more notch and four more aces Billy, and you're playin' all alone. By Bob Dylan

Don't know which one is worse, doing your own thing or just being cool. By Bob Dylan

I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul... By Bob Dylan

Watch waterfalls of pity roar, you feel to moan but unlike before, you discover that you'd just be one more person crying. By Bob Dylan

Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount,But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts. By Bob Dylan

The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you've only got ten. By Bob Dylan

Shedding off one more layer of skinKeeping one step ahead of the persecutor within By Bob Dylan

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more By Bob Dylan

I don't really have a retirement plan. By Bob Dylan

There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again. By Bob Dylan

People don't live or die, people just float. By Bob Dylan

All the tired horses in the sun How'm I supposed to get any ridin' done? Hmm. By Bob Dylan

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

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record. By Bob Dylan

Music attracts the angels in the universe. By Bob Dylan

I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams. By Bob Dylan

Though the masters make the rulesFor the wise men and the fools,I got nothing, Ma, to live up to. By Bob Dylan

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever. By Bob Dylan

Lord knows I've paid my dues getting through, tangled up in blue. By Bob Dylan

I got this grave yard woman. By Bob Dylan

Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road. By Bob Dylan

He's hell bent for destruction, he's afraid and confused, and his brain has been mismanaged with great skill. By Bob Dylan

I practice a faith that's been long abandoned Ain't no altars on this long and lonesome road By Bob Dylan

They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in, sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss banks. By Bob Dylan

I count the years and I shed no tears; I'm blinded to what might have been. Nature's voice makes my heart rejoice; play me the wild song of the wind. By Bob Dylan

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking. By Bob Dylan

I like Fidel Castro and his beard. By Bob Dylan

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young. By Bob Dylan

Shakespeare, he's in the alley with his pointed shoes and his bells, speaking to some French girl who says she knows me well. By Bob Dylan

Ring the bells for the blind and deaf. By Bob Dylan

Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free,Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands By Bob Dylan

Last night I danced with a stranger, but she just reminded me you were the one. By Bob Dylan

Every day your memory grows dimmer - it doesn't haunt me like it did before. By Bob Dylan

When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor. By Bob Dylan

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

Wiggle 'til you're high, wiggle 'til you're higher, wiggle 'til you vomit fire. By Bob Dylan

An' though the rules of the road have been lodged,It's only people's games that you got to dodge.From It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) By Bob Dylan

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. By Bob Dylan

If not for you, winter wouldn't hold no spring, couldn't hear a robin sing. I just wouldn't have a clue, if not for you. By Bob Dylan

I wanted to read all these books, but I would have to have been in a rest home or something to do that (p. 37, Chronicles, Vol. One). By Bob Dylan

The executioner's face is always well hidden. By Bob Dylan

Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle. By Bob Dylan

I could stay with you forever and never realize the time. By Bob Dylan

Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us. By Bob Dylan

You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live ... By Bob Dylan

The truth that I am seeking is in your missing file. By Bob Dylan

It rubs me the wrong way, a camera ... It's a frightening thing ... Cameras make ghosts out of people. By Bob Dylan

Art is a never-ending dance of illusions. By Bob Dylan

Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace. By Bob Dylan

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere. By Bob Dylan

If I made records for my own pleasure, I would only record Charley Patton songs. By Bob Dylan

How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone. By Bob Dylan

I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave By Bob Dylan

Gonna change my way of thinking, make my self a different set of rules. Gonna put my good foot forward and stop being influenced by fools. By Bob Dylan

Hen I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail By Bob Dylan

My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip, my toes to numb to step, wait only for my boot heels to be wandering. By Bob Dylan

I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do. By Bob Dylan

I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children. By Bob Dylan

You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing. By Bob Dylan

I can't stand to see myself on television. By Bob Dylan

Since my feet are now fast and point away from the past, I'll bid farewell and be down the line. By Bob Dylan

You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way. By Bob Dylan

Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth. You're an idiot babe, it's a wonder that you still know how to breathe. By Bob Dylan

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge. By Bob Dylan

Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall. By Bob Dylan

I think of rock 'n' roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not Chicago blues, and modern pop. By Bob Dylan

Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings. By Bob Dylan

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life. By Bob Dylan

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am ... By Bob Dylan

Ah, but I was so much older thenI'm younger than that now By Bob Dylan

Everything passes, Everything changes, Just do what you think you should do. By Bob Dylan

The good Samaritan, he's getting dressed, he's getting ready for the show. He's going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row. By Bob Dylan

Be groovy or leave, man By Bob Dylan

You can't be happy by doing something groovy. By Bob Dylan

There's a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it. By Bob Dylan

Too much of nothing can turn a man into a liar. It can cause one man to sleep on nails and another to eat fire. By Bob Dylan

Pain sure does bring out the best in people, doesn't it? By Bob Dylan

If I had rubies, riches, and crowns, I'd buy the whole world and change things around. By Bob Dylan

It may look like I'm moving but I'm standing still. By Bob Dylan

Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers. By Bob Dylan

If you think the summer sun is too hot, just remember, at least you don't have to shovel it. By Bob Dylan

Now all the criminals in their suits and ties are free to drink martinis and watch the sunrise By Bob Dylan

Funny, how the things you have the hardest time parting with are the things you need the least. By Bob Dylan

Upon four-legged forest clouds the cowboy angel rides By Bob Dylan

If I had wings, no one would ask me: should I fly? By Bob Dylan

Situations have ended sad,Relationships have all been bad. By Bob Dylan

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas. By Bob Dylan

May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung. May you stay forever young. By Bob Dylan

Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up? By Bob Dylan

How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand? By Bob Dylan

If my thought-dreams could be seen/ They'd probably put my head in a guillotine. By Bob Dylan

Every writer at the New Yorker is smarter than me. By Bob Dylan

If you want to know how to please a woman, just talk to a neuroscience major from Columbia. By Bob Dylan

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow. By Bob Dylan

I'll remember you. When I've forgotten all the rest.You to me were true. You to me were the best. By Bob Dylan

If you ever tell anyone about Jonah's sexual dysfunction, I'll never play music again. By Bob Dylan

There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better. By Bob Dylan

How many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free ... By Bob Dylan

My love is like some raven at my window with a broken wing. By Bob Dylan

It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be ... By Bob Dylan

Don't get up gentlemen. I'm only passing through! By Bob Dylan

The Harmonica is the world's best-selling musical instrument. You're welcome. By Bob Dylan

You'll never be greater than yourself. By Bob Dylan

Uncle fought in Vietnam and then he fought a war all by himself. By Bob Dylan

Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad) By Bob Dylan

There's danger in this open world where men strive to be free, and to me the greatest danger was in society. By Bob Dylan

Her profession's her religion, her sin is lifelessness. By Bob Dylan

The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape. By Bob Dylan

You've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books, you're very well read, it's well known. By Bob Dylan

The only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on By Bob Dylan

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on. By Bob Dylan

Ah mamawhat care the dead t drink up their own toasts?spirits slurpingcandle syrupaffects whose emptiness? By Bob Dylan

The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have titles. By Bob Dylan

In songs, you have to tell people about something they didn't see and weren't there for, and you have to do it as if you were. By Bob Dylan

The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify. By Bob Dylan

You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you. By Bob Dylan

You say you lost your faithBut that's not where it's atYou had no faith to loseAnd you know it By Bob Dylan

Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind. By Bob Dylan

Whatever colors you have in your mind, I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine. By Bob Dylan

If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show you the scars. By Bob Dylan

You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grinin By Bob Dylan

Fearing not that I'd become my enemy In the instant that I preach By Bob Dylan

The rifleman's stalking the sick and the lame, preacherman seeks the same, who'll get there first is uncertain. By Bob Dylan

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work. By Bob Dylan

One was Texas medicine, the other was just railroad gin, and like a fool I mixed them. By Bob Dylan

You can't be wise and in love at the same time. By Bob Dylan

I'm a good friend of Jonah Lehrer's. You should go on a date with him. By Bob Dylan

Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you. By Bob Dylan

Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through. By Bob Dylan

Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late. By Bob Dylan

Money doesn't exist because I don't recognize it. By Bob Dylan

Don't wanna marry nobody, if they're already married. By Bob Dylan

In another lifetime she must have owned the world, or been faithfully wed to some righteous king who wrote psalms beside moonlit streams. By Bob Dylan

Satan will give you a little taste, then he'll move in with rapid speed. By Bob Dylan

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do. By Bob Dylan

If you need somebody you can trust, trust yourself By Bob Dylan

When you got nothing, you got nothin' to lose You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal. By Bob Dylan

Yesterday is just a memory. By Bob Dylan

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours By Bob Dylan

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs. By Bob Dylan

Your eyes are like two jewels in the sky. By Bob Dylan

In the valley of the giants where the stars and stripes explode, the peaches they were sweet and the milk and honey flowed. By Bob Dylan

Seven shots ring out like the ocean's pounding roar, there's seven people dead on a South Dakota farm. By Bob Dylan

He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich. By Bob Dylan

Either I'm too sensitive, or else I'm gettin' soft By Bob Dylan

Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them. By Bob Dylan

I didn't have any of these dreams or thoughts, but I was going to acquire them. By Bob Dylan

If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and good. Folk songs had taught me that. By Bob Dylan

I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place. By Bob Dylan

I was never a topical songwriter. By Bob Dylan

I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken By Bob Dylan

You can't do something forever. By Bob Dylan

There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. By Bob Dylan

When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form. By Bob Dylan

The purpose of art is to stop time. By Bob Dylan

Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected? By Bob Dylan

When the jelly faced women all sneeze, hear the one with the mustache say I can't find my knees. By Bob Dylan

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them. By Bob Dylan

I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so I'm on my way home. By Bob Dylan

One who sings with his tongue on fire, gargles in the rat race choir. By Bob Dylan

Abe said where d'you want this killin done / God said out on highway 61 By Bob Dylan

You been down to the bottom with a bad man, babeBut you're back were you belong By Bob Dylan

The answer is blowin' in the wind. By Bob Dylan

There's no liquor in the land that can stop your brain from bleedin By Bob Dylan

A poem is a naked person ... Some people say that I am a poet. By Bob Dylan

Absolutely," he says. "If it's at all possible. By Bob Dylan

And if you don't underestimate me, I won't underestimate you. By Bob Dylan

It's hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring. By Bob Dylan

We're living in a Machiavellian world, whether we like it or we don't. By Bob Dylan

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure By Bob Dylan

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it. By Bob Dylan

In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie. By Bob Dylan

We never thought we could ever get old. By Bob Dylan

I'm not a playwright. By Bob Dylan

Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan. By Bob Dylan

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

Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade. By Bob Dylan

I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed. By Bob Dylan

When you got nothin' / You got nothin' to lose. By Bob Dylan

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. By Bob Dylan

You're better than no one and no one is better than you. By Bob Dylan

God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free. By Bob Dylan

What politics I ever learned, I learned in the streets, because it was part of the environment. By Bob Dylan

She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall. She's nobody's child, the law can't touch her at all. By Bob Dylan

I didn't know whether to duck or to run, so I ran. By Bob Dylan

I wouldn't even think of playing music if I was born in these times. I wouldn't even listen to the radio. By Bob Dylan

You know, the streets are filled with vipers Who've lost all ray of hope You know, it ain't even safe no more In the palace of the Pope By Bob Dylan

When somethin's not right it's wrong. By Bob Dylan

It ain't where you're from, its where you're going to By Bob Dylan

Time is an ocean, but it ends at the shore. By Bob Dylan

Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the pastI know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast By Bob Dylan

Idiot wind, blowing every time you open your mouth. By Bob Dylan

It wouldn't kill you to stay the night anyway. By Bob Dylan

You can never be wise and be in love at the same time. By Bob Dylan

Let me feel your love one more time before I abandon it. By Bob Dylan

I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans. By Bob Dylan

It's not important what other people call you. If you yourself know you're a fake, that's tougher to live with. By Bob Dylan

I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred. By Bob Dylan

So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away, to the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong. By Bob Dylan

Jezebel the nun, who violently knits ... By Bob Dylan

In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's handIn every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand. By Bob Dylan

A cat's meow and cow's moo, I can recite them all. By Bob Dylan

I used to play hockey when I was growing up. Everyone sort of learns how to skate and play hockey at an early age. By Bob Dylan

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing. By Bob Dylan

There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief ... By Bob Dylan

Money doesn't talk, it swears. By Bob Dylan

I'm sittin' on my watch so I can be on time. By Bob Dylan

When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose. By Bob Dylan

You get older. You start having hopes for other people rather than yourself. By Bob Dylan

I'll be selling tickets for my next tour exclusively through Jonah Lehrer. Make sure to pay cash. By Bob Dylan

As long as you give my friend Jonah Lehrer a free pizza, I'll write a song about your restaurant. By Bob Dylan

I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon. By Bob Dylan

Well, the comic book and me, just us, we caught the bus. By Bob Dylan

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark. By Bob Dylan

A song is like a dream, and you try to make it come true. They're like strange countries that you have to enter. By Bob Dylan

The National Bank at profit sells road maps for the soul. By Bob Dylan

Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane. By Bob Dylan

God bless you all with peace, tranquility and good will. By Bob Dylan

Morality has nothing in common with politics. By Bob Dylan

Well, it's always been my nature to take chances My right hand drawing back while my left hand advances By Bob Dylan

May you stay Forever Young By Bob Dylan

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

I am a restless soul hungry perhaps wretched. By Bob Dylan

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. By Bob Dylan

I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something. By Bob Dylan

20 years of schooling and they put you on the day shift. By Bob Dylan

My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect. By Bob Dylan

I heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men and it all sounded no different to me. By Bob Dylan

Todays the day gonna grab my trombone and blow Thunder on the Mountain By Bob Dylan

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall. By Bob Dylan

Don't put my faith in nobody, not even a scientist. By Bob Dylan

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding. By Bob Dylan

What looks large from a distance, close up ain't never that big. By Bob Dylan

Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game. By Bob Dylan

I set my monkey on the log, and ordered him to do the Dog. He wagged his tail and shook his head, and he went and did the Cat instead. By Bob Dylan

She takes your voice and leaves you howling at the moon. By Bob Dylan

We all like motorcycles to some degree. By Bob Dylan

It's sundown on the Union and what's made in the USA, sure was a good idea, until greed got in the way. By Bob Dylan

My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands. By Bob Dylan

You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs. By Bob Dylan

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be. By Bob Dylan

My range is limited. By Bob Dylan

One more cup of coffee for the roadOne more cup of coffee 'fore I go.To the valley below. By Bob Dylan

And I'll know my song well before I start singing By Bob Dylan

Is your money that good, will it buy you forgiveness? By Bob Dylan

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged. By Bob Dylan

As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree, and the locusts sang off in the distance. By Bob Dylan

I never saw myself as a folk singer. By Bob Dylan

I almost died because of obesity. It make me cannot breath when sleep at night. By Bob Dylan

Definition destroys ... there's nothing definite in this world By Bob Dylan

My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune. By Bob Dylan

When it came time to hire a guitar player ... I didn't even have to think about it ... Mike Bloomfield was the best guitar player I'd ever heard ... By Bob Dylan

I was down in the sewer with some little lover. By Bob Dylan

Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws. By Bob Dylan

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people. By Bob Dylan

Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language. By Bob Dylan

Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel. You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels. By Bob Dylan

Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards By Bob Dylan

There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden. By Bob Dylan

She makes love just like a woman. By Bob Dylan

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'. By Bob Dylan

Got no religion. Tried a bunch of different religions. The churches are divided. Can't make up their minds and neither can I. By Bob Dylan

People call you this or that. But I can't respond because then it seems like I'm defensive, you know, what does it matter, really? By Bob Dylan

If you're looking to get silly, you better go back to from where you came. because the cops don't need you and man they expect the same. By Bob Dylan

I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade, into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way. By Bob Dylan

Your problem is that wanna better word for world By Bob Dylan

How many deaths will it take 'till we know that too many people have died? By Bob Dylan

Sailin' 'round the world in a dirty gondolaOh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola! By Bob Dylan

If love is a sin, then beauty is a crime By Bob Dylan

I've never gone for having a great voice, for cultivating one. I'm still not doing it now. By Bob Dylan

Your old road is rapidly aging. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand, For the times they are a-changin'. By Bob Dylan

How many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned? By Bob Dylan

Beauty walks a razors edge, someday I'll make it mine. By Bob Dylan

God, I'm glad I'm not me. By Bob Dylan

The times are a-changing and if we don't we will sink like a stone. By Bob Dylan

I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity. By Bob Dylan

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that. By Bob Dylan

How many a year has passed and gone and many gamble has been lost and won, and many a road taken by a friend and each one I've never seen again. By Bob Dylan

It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it's like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don't. By Bob Dylan

Folk music is a bunch of fat people. By Bob Dylan

I saw him making love to you, you forgot to close the garage door. By Bob Dylan

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

Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid By Bob Dylan

She's a hypnotist collector; you are a walking antique ... By Bob Dylan

I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds. By Bob Dylan

I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame And every time I pass that way I always hear my name By Bob Dylan

He hands you a nickel, he hands you a dime. He asks you with a grin, if you're having a good time. By Bob Dylan

The times they are a-changing. By Bob Dylan

The drunken politician leaps upon the street where mothers weep, and the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you. By Bob Dylan

The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face By Bob Dylan

With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books. By Bob Dylan

I don't write the songs; I just write 'em down. By Bob Dylan

Sold my guitar to the baker's son for a few crumbs and a place to hide. By Bob Dylan

The hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying. By Bob Dylan

You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you. By Bob Dylan

Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone. By Bob Dylan

People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations. By Bob Dylan

Every cause that ever I fought, I fought it full without regret or shame. By Bob Dylan

A poem is a naked person. By Bob Dylan

She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all. By Bob Dylan

Why be bothered with other people's set-ups? it only leads to torture. By Bob Dylan

The motorcycle black madonna Two wheeled gypsy queen. By Bob Dylan

I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type. By Bob Dylan

My favorite politician was Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, who reminded me of Tom Mix, and there wasn't any way to explain that to anybody. By Bob Dylan

She took off her wheel, took off her bell, took off her wig, said, how do I smell? I hot footed it barenaked out the window. By Bob Dylan

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots. By Bob Dylan

To preach of peace and brotherhood, oh what might be the cost? A man he did it long ago, and they hung him on a cross. By Bob Dylan

Witchcraft scum exploiting the dumb turning children into punks and slaves. By Bob Dylan

Proud to steal her anything she sees, but you will wind up peeking through her key hole down upon your knees. By Bob Dylan

I fought with my twin, the enemy within. By Bob Dylan

When you asked me how I was doing, was that some kind of joke By Bob Dylan

You use to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat, who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat. By Bob Dylan

I don't believe you. You're a liar. Play it fucking loud! By Bob Dylan

I put one on the turntable and when the needle dropped, I was stunned - didn't know whether I was stoned or straight. By Bob Dylan

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky. By Bob Dylan

I'm the oldest son of a crazy man, I'm in a cowboy band. By Bob Dylan

I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation. By Bob Dylan

In this age of fiberglass, I'm searching for a gem. By Bob Dylan

It's not easy to define poetry. By Bob Dylan

You'll find God in the church of your choice, you'll find Woody Guthrie in the Brooklyn State Hospital. By Bob Dylan

Nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street. By Bob Dylan

I was born a long way from where I belong and I am on my way home. By Bob Dylan

It's like going out to the desert and screaming and then having little kids throw their sandbox at you. I'm only 24. By Bob Dylan

To understand you know too soonThere is no sense in trying By Bob Dylan

People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book. By Bob Dylan

Freedom just around the corner for you, but with the truth so far off, what good will it do? By Bob Dylan

Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking 'bout the government. By Bob Dylan

You say love is just a four letter word. By Bob Dylan

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it. By Bob Dylan

You can hurt someone and not even know it. By Bob Dylan

For the loser now Will be later to win By Bob Dylan

Cop comes down the street crazy as a loon, he throws us in jail for carrying harpoons. By Bob Dylan

Once you think you know the song, then you have go and see how other people have done it. By Bob Dylan

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet. By Bob Dylan

I said, you know they refused Jesus, too. He said, you're not him. By Bob Dylan

Even I don't know what I'm saying most of the time. By Bob Dylan

But I would not feel so all alone, everybody must get stoned. By Bob Dylan

She can play my guitar note for note, she likes to stick her tongue down my throat. By Bob Dylan

Very, very protesty. And, uh, one of the protestiest of all things I ever protested against in my protest years. By Bob Dylan

Draft beer, not people. By Bob Dylan

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them. By Bob Dylan

There is nothing so stable as change. By Bob Dylan

Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship. By Bob Dylan

The highlight of my career? That's easy, Elvis recording one of my songs. By Bob Dylan

Beyond here lies nothin' But the mountains of the past By Bob Dylan

All I can be is me- whoever that is. By Bob Dylan

Abe said, where do you want this killing done? God said, out on highway 61. By Bob Dylan

I'm inconsistent, even to myself. By Bob Dylan

Don't follow leaders, watch your parkin' meters. By Bob Dylan

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be. By Bob Dylan

Whenever anybody does something in a big way, it's always rejected at home and accepted someplace else. By Bob Dylan

Oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies. By Bob Dylan

The warrior who's strength is not to fight. By Bob Dylan

He swift don't win the race. It goes to the worthy, who can divide the word of truth. By Bob Dylan

Don't think twice, it's alright. By Bob Dylan

I bargained for salvation and they gave me a lethal dose. By Bob Dylan

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see? By Bob Dylan

I'll always thank the Lord when my working day is through, I get my sweet reward to be alone with you. By Bob Dylan

Well, I sing by night, wander by day. I'm on the road and it looks like I'm here to stay. By Bob Dylan

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past. By Bob Dylan

You've got to lose your passion for dumbness. By Bob Dylan

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen. By Bob Dylan

A lot of people from the press want to talk to me, but they never do. By Bob Dylan

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid. By Bob Dylan

An artist has got to be constantly in a state of becoming. By Bob Dylan

Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content. By Bob Dylan

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked. By Bob Dylan

She's got everything she needs; she's an artist, she don't look back. By Bob Dylan

May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung. By Bob Dylan

I thought that he was righteous, but he's vain. Oh, somethings a telling me I wear the ball and chain. By Bob Dylan

Lay down the song you strum,And rest yourself 'neath the strength of stringsNo voice can hope to hum. By Bob Dylan

I'm one too many mornings, and a thousand miles behind. By Bob Dylan

Well, it's hard to stumble And land in some muddy lagoon When it's nine below zero And three o'clock in the afternoon. By Bob Dylan

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. By Bob Dylan

I kinda live where I find myself. By Bob Dylan

Somebody had to be Bob Dylan. I guess I was best equipped to do the job. By Bob Dylan

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

I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed ... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself. By Bob Dylan

A song is anything that can walk by itself. By Bob Dylan

Gold will never free your father, the price, my dear, is you instead. By Bob Dylan

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie. By Bob Dylan

I'm glad I'm not me By Bob Dylan

Ain't no use jiving, ain't no use joking, everything is broken. By Bob Dylan

I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now.From the back pages By Bob Dylan

The sun isn't yellow, it's chicken By Bob Dylan

One should never be where one does not belong. By Bob Dylan

And it's a hard, It's a hard, It's a hard, It's a hard, It's a hard rain gonna fall. By Bob Dylan

I never could guess your weight, baby. By Bob Dylan

In the home of the brave, Jefferson turning over in his grave. By Bob Dylan

All I can do is be me. Whoever that is. By Bob Dylan

A noble truth is a sacred creed. By Bob Dylan

The one who is not being born is dying. By Bob Dylan

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them. By Bob Dylan

The walls of pride are high and wide, can't see over to the other side. By Bob Dylan

Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim. By Bob Dylan

You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing. By Bob Dylan

Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution. By Bob Dylan

I just try to understand that tomorrow is another day. By Bob Dylan

Keep a clean nose, watch the plain-clothes. By Bob Dylan

Too much of nothing, it just makes a fellow mean. By Bob Dylan

All the people we used to know, they're an illusion to me now. By Bob Dylan

All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives. By Bob Dylan