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Romance never does go out of fashion. It's radical. But it's out of step with the current media culture.
Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.
The enemy is subtle, how be it we are so deceived, when truth's in our hearts and we still don't believe.
I wouldn't even think of playing music if I was born in these times. I wouldn't even listen to the radio.
You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.
Sing your praise of progress and the doom machine, the naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen.
I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
The whole world's a bottle, And life's but a dram, When the bottle gets empty, It sure ain't worth a damn.
You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you.
And there's no one there to dry your tears. I could hold you for a million years. To make you feel my love.
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself.
In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand.
There's danger in this open world where men strive to be free, and to me the greatest danger was in society.
Ah, current music. What would that be? Ah, really, a lot of it sounds defective to me. It makes me restless.
He's hell bent for destruction, he's afraid and confused, and his brain has been mismanaged with great skill.
When you're sad and when you're lonely and you haven't got a friend, just remember that death is not the end.
Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.
New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.
Proud to steal her anything she sees, but you will wind up peeking through her key hole down upon your knees.
I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.
The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.
Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards
Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.
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.
You don't have to be afraid of looking into my face. We've done nothing to each other that time will not erase.
Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade.
The rifleman's stalking the sick and the lame, preacherman seeks the same, who'll get there first is uncertain.
Suddenly I found you and the spirit in me sings, Don't have to look no further, You're the soul of many things.
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.
It's not important what other people call you. If you yourself know you're a fake, that's tougher to live with.
With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books.
The inmates and prisoners, I found they were my kind, and it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind.
There doesn't seem to be any tomorrow. Every time I wake up, no matter in what position, it's always been today.
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
A song is like a dream, and you try to make it come true. They're like strange countries that you have to enter.
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth. None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.
Well the Lone Ranger and Tonto, they are riding down the line fixing everybody's troubles, everybody except mine.
You might be a rock and roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage.
It goes back to the destiny thing.I made a bargain with it, you know, a long time ago. And I'm holding up my end.
When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.
"Subterranean Homesick Blues" [of Bob Dylan] captures, in word-salad format, life in an encroaching police state.
Just in time for Bob Dylan to recoil from the attention, leave the city for Woodstock, and turn his back on fame.
I used to play hockey when I was growing up. Everyone sort of learns how to skate and play hockey at an early age.
Bob Dylan was again an entirely new person - this time old, craggy, cynical, and world-weary, as in "Not Dark Yet".
I think of rock 'n' roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not Chicago blues, and modern pop.
Your mind is a your temple, keep it beautiful and free. Don't let an egg get laid in it by something you can't see.