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" A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it. "
Bob Dylan
Driven
Me
Stand
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" I'm not a playwright. "
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" I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation. "
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" You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs. "
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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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" I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come. "
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" Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it. "
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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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" Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid. "
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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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" Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all. "
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" I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work. "
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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. "
Bob Dylan
Nothing
Way
Easy
" No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky. "
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Sky
Free
" Nothing can affect my voice, it's so bad. "
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Affect
Voice
Bad
" 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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Never
Run
Land
" I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet. "
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Live
Myself
Poetry
" Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything. "
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Like
You
" I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be. "
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Rules
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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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" A song is anything that can walk by itself. "
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Walk
Itself
" You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life. "
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You
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" I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself. "
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Changed
Believe
Myself
" Folk music is a bunch of fat people. "
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Music
Folk
Fat
" I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to. "
Bob Dylan
Good
Up
Try
" 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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Think
Dig
Dreams
" I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me. "
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Whether
Sure
Me
" Chaos is a friend of mine. "
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Friend
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" What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing. "
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" I think I have a dualistic nature. "
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