Bob Dylan Quotes

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Bob Dylan

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 24, 1941

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

Bob Dylan

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

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

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

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

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

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You can't be happy by doing something groovy.

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You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

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Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

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

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

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

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You can't do something forever.

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

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

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Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

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I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

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Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

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

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