In the words of 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.
Don't know which one is worse, doing your own thing or just being cool.
He swift don't win the race. It goes to the worthy, who can divide the word of truth.
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.
It's not important what other people call you. If you yourself know you're a fake, that's tougher to live with.
Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content.
Dealing with my own life takes priority over other people dealing with my life.
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.
If I lived my life by what others were thinkin', the heart inside me would've died.
If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.
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.
The rifleman's stalking the sick and the lame, preacherman seeks the same, who'll get there first is uncertain.
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.
I put one on the turntable and when the needle dropped, I was stunned - didn't know whether I was stoned or straight.
If I had rubies, riches, and crowns, I'd buy the whole world and change things around.
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.
Everything passes, Everything changes, Just do what you think you should do.
In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.
You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you.
Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king.
We're living in times where men commit crimes and crime don't have a face.
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.
People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book.
If you want to know how to please a woman, just talk to a neuroscience major from Columbia.
It's very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself don't dig you.
I just don't hear anyone else making the music I'm making in my head, so I'll have to do it myself.
The woman I love she got a prize fighter nose, cauliflower ears and a run in her hose.
The inmates and prisoners, I found they were my kind, and it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind.
The harmonica is the world's best-selling musical instrument. You're welcome.
Well, I sing by night, wander by day. I'm on the road and it looks like I'm here to stay.
I heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men and it all sounded no different to me.
Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.
Life has its ups and downs, and time has to be your partner. Really, time is your soul mate.
Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.
How many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free.
May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong, may you stay forever young.
I feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet, putting her in a wheel-barrow and wheeling her down the street.
Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time.
Suddenly I found you and the spirit in me sings, Don't have to look no further, You're the soul of many things.
I'll remember you. When I've forgotten all the rest.You to me were true. You to me were the best.
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.
If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show you the scars.
May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung. May you stay forever young.
Watch waterfalls of pity roar, you feel to moan but unlike before, you discover that you'd just be one more person crying.
Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.
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.
You get older. You start having hopes for other people rather than yourself.
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.
I hurt easy, I just don't show it. You can hurt someone and not even know it.
As he weeps to wicked birds of prey, who pick up on his bread crumb sins, and there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden.
I've always been the kind of person that doesn't like to trespass, but sometimes you just find yourself over the line.
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