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" 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. "
Bob Dylan
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" I don't think I'm tangible to myself. "
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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. "
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" My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world. "
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Home
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" I can't stand to see myself on television. "
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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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" 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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" Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way. "
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Titles
Having
" I think I have a dualistic nature. "
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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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People
Work
" I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that. "
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World
" I can't act! "
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Act
" All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die. "
Bob Dylan
Talk
People
Only
" I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon. "
Bob Dylan
Feeling
Just
Better
" 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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" The people in my songs are all me. "
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Songs
People
" You can't do something forever. "
Bob Dylan
You
Something
Forever
" You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself. "
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Yourself
World
Tomorrow
" I'm not a playwright. "
Bob Dylan
Playwright
" 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. "
Bob Dylan
Think
Dig
Dreams
" My range is limited. "
Bob Dylan
Range
Limited
" Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now. "
Bob Dylan
Look
Culture
Music
" I kinda live where I find myself. "
Bob Dylan
Where
Kinda
Find
" If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself. "
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Think
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" A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet. "
Bob Dylan
Naked
Some People
Say
" Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot. "
Bob Dylan
Disappear
Burden
Because
" I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to. "
Bob Dylan
Good
Up
Try
" Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast. "
Bob Dylan
Fast
Die
Death
" When you cease to exist, then who will you blame? "
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You
Will
Who
" A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding. "
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Commit
Mistake
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" What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. "
Bob Dylan
Man
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