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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Musician · American · b. 1941

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A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they got a lot of forks 'n knives. And they got to cut somethin'.
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You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing.
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There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief.
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Whatever colors you have in your mind, I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine.
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Back seat drivers don’t know the feel of the wheel but they sho’ know how to make a fuss" Bob Dylan/Bonnie Raitt, “Let’s Keep It Between Us,” 1982
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I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul.
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Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards
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Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.
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And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns... that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn't have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale... that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorientate myself. p.71
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All right, I'll take a chance. I will fall in love with you. If i'm a fool you can have the night, you can have the morning too. Can you cook and sew. make flowers grow. Do you understand my pain? Are you willing to risk it all or is your love in vain?
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We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it
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When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.
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Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored
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They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.
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Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
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I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave
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They say every man needs protection_x000D_ They say every man must fall_x000D_ So, I swear I see my reflection_x000D_ Somewhere inside these walls... I shall be released.
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Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/ You will not die, its not poison -Tombstone Blues
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A million faces at my feet but all I see are dark eyes.
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Your old road is rapidly aging. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand, For the times they are a-changin'.
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Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast
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