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Bob Dylan is an American musician and songwriter whose influential career has spanned more than six decades. Known for his distinctive voice and poetic lyrics, Dylan's work includes groundbreaking albums such as "Highway 61 Revisited" and "Blonde on Blonde." His contributions to folk, rock, and protest music have earned him numerous awards, including the Nobel Prize in Literature.
"The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots."
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"And if you don't underestimate me, I won't underestimate you."
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"I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type."
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"Be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want."
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"Songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality. Some different republic, some liberated republic... whatever the case, it wasn't that I was anti-popular culture or anything and I had no ambition to stir things up. I just thought of mainstream culture as lame as hell and a big trick. It was like the unbroken sea of frost that lay outside the window and you had to have awkward footgear to walk with."
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"I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave."
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"I had no time for romance. I turned away from the window, from the wintry sun, crossed through the room, went to the stove and made and poured myself a cup of hot chocolate and then clicked on the radio."
11
"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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"Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean."
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"The line it is drawnThe curse it is castThe slow one nowWill later be fastAs the present nowWill later be pastThe new order isRapidly fadin'.And the first one nowWill later be lastFor the times they are a-changin'."
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"When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose."
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"My father was the best man in the world and probably worth a hundred of me, but he didn't understand me. The town he lived in and the town I lived in were not the same."
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"I wasn't going to go deeper into the darkness for anybody. I was already living in the darkness. My family was my light and I was going to protect that light at all cost. That was where my dedication was, first, last and everything in-between. What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing. Not a damn thing."
12
"There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again."
12
"I'm happy to just be able to come across things. I don't need to be happy. Happiness is a kind of cheap word. Let's face it, I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something. I would commit suicide. I would shoot myself in the brain if things got bad. I would jump from a window you know, I can think about death openly. It's nothing to fear. It's nothing sacred. I've seen so many people die. Life's not sacred either."
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"Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes you just want to do things your way, want to see for yourself what lies behind the misty curtain. It's not like you see songs approaching and invite them in. It's not that easy. You want to write songs that are bigger than life. You want to say something about strange things that have happened to you, strange things you have seen. You have to know and understand something and then go past the vernacular."
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"I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.From the back pages."
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"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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"It seemed I'd always been chasing after something, anything that moved -a car, a bird, a blowing leaf -anything that might lead me into some more lit place, some unknown land downriver. I had not even the vaguest notion of the broken world I was living in, what society could do with you."