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Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, is an American singer-songwriter, author, poet, and painter, who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. Much of Dylan's most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when he became an informal chronicler and a reluctant figurehead of American...
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Filter this CollectionHow many times must the cannonballs fly before they're forever banned?
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I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
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I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.
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Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
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All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
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Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.
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Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.
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I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
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To live outside the law, you must be honest.
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People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
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I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
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Democracy don't rule the world, you better get that in your head; this world is ruled by violence, but I guess that's better left unsaid.
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This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
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Well, I don't know, but I've been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!
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Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!
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But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.
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People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around -- the music and the ideas.
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You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past -- whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
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Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way.
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Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
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For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.
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In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.
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I like Henry Miller. I think he's the greatest American writer
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