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You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way.
Ain't no use jiving, ain't no use joking, everything is broken.
If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation.
Truth is like a waterslide-only fun when it's slippery and wet.
What looks large from a distance, close up ain’t never that big.
We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it
Uncle fought in Vietnam and then he fought a war all by himself.
He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich.
Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through.
Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.
Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must.
There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better.
In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.
People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.
How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?
Lord knows I've paid my dues getting through, tangled up in blue.
I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.
Fearing not that I'd become my enemy In the instant that I preach
I saw him making love to you, you forgot to close the garage door.
I was born a long way from where I belong and I am on my way home.
I said, you know they refused Jesus, too. He said, you're not him.
I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
The times are a-changing and if we don't we will sink like a stone.
Ironically, this was Bob Dylan's period [1967-74] of greatest fame.
Good and bad, I define these terms, quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
Don't Ask Me Nothing About Nothing, I Just Might Tell You the Truth
There's no liquor in the land that can stop your brain from bleedin
There's a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it.
The first thing I know, I'm in a card game. Then I'm in a crap game.
How many roads must a man walk down.. Before you can call him a Man.
If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.
One who sings with his tongue on fire, gargles in the rat race choir.
Gold will never free your father, the price, my dear, is you instead.
A lot of people from the press want to talk to me, but they never do.
I made a bargain with him, the chief in a world we can't see. (devil)
Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.
People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young.
Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
I'm a good friend of Jonah Lehrer's. You should go on a date with him.
Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.
It was [meeting with Nicolas Sarkozy] like looking at my mirror image.
The picture you have in your mind of what you're about will come true.
Sold my guitar to the baker's son for a few crumbs and a place to hide.
You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.
Disillusioned words like bullets bark as human gods aim for their mark.
You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.
How many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free.
You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live.