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Bob Dylan Wasn't A Big Star Early On; It Was The Release Of His Greatest Hits Album In 1967, And The Mainstream Success Of The Stoner Anthem "rainy Day Women #12 & 35" ("everybody Must Get Stoned!"), That Really Put Him On The Mainstream Map.

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Bob Dylan Wasn't A Big Star Early On; It Was The Release Of His Greatest Hits Album In 1967, And The Mainstream Success Of The Stoner Anthem "rainy Day Women #12 & 35" ("everybody Must Get Stoned!"), That Really Put Him On The Mainstream Map.

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You Can't Be Happy By Doing Something Groovy.

It Ain't My Cup Of Meat.

I Started Writing Songs After I Heard Hank Williams.

You're Gonna Have To Serve Somebody.

Up North, You Could Find These Radio Stations With No Name On The Dials That Played Pre-rock 'n' Roll Things - Country Blues. We Would Hear Slim Harpo Or Lightnin' Slim And Gospel Groups, The Dixie Hummingbirds, The Five Blind Boys Of Alabama. I Was So Far North, I Didn't Even Know Where Alabama Was.

Everything Passes, Everything Changes, Just Do What You Think You Should Do.

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Through The Mad Mystic Hammering Of The Wild Ripping Hail The Sky Cracked Its Poems In Naked Wonder

Mothers Tell Your Children Not To Do The Things I Have Done, To Spend My Life In Sin And Misery In The House Of The Rising Sun.

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When The Deeds That You Do Don't Add Up To Zero.

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All The Money You Made Will Never Buy Back Your Soul.

You Always Got To Be Prepared But You Never Know For What.

I Kissed Goodbye The Howling Beast On The Borderline Which Separated You From Me.

The Purpose Of Art Is To Stop Time.

When You Think That You Lost Everything You Find Out You Can Always Lose A Little More.

Lost Everything

In Harmony With Cosmic Sea, True Love Needs No Company. It Can Cure The Soul, It Can Make It Whole, If Dogs Run Free.

I Made A Bargain With Him, The Chief In A World We Can't See. (devil)

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I'm The Oldest Son Of A Crazy Man, I'm In A Cowboy Band.

Everybody Knows By Now That There's A Gazillion Books On Me Either Out Or Coming Out In The Near Future. So I'm Encouraging Anybody Who's Ever Met Me, Heard Me Or Even Seen Me, To Get In On The Action And Scribble Their Own Book. You Never Know, Somebody Might Have A Great Book In Them.

I Wanted To Understand Things And Then Be Free Of Them. I Needed To Learn How To Telescope Things, Ideas. Things Were Too Big To See All At Once, Like All The Books In The Library-everything Laying Around On All The Tables. You Might Be Able To Put It All Into One Paragraph Or Into One Verse Of A Song If You Could Get It Right.

Seven Shots Ring Out Like The Ocean's Pounding Roar, There's Seven People Dead On A South Dakota Farm.

Fearing Not That I'd Become My Enemy In The Instant That I Preach

People Do Whatever They Want To Do, Y'know.

What Politics I Ever Learned, I Learned In The Streets, Because It Was Part Of The Environment.

If You Don't Underestimate Me, I Won't Underestimate You.

On The Stone That Remains Carved Next To His Name, His Epitaph Plain, Only A Pawn In Their Game.

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Folk Music Is A Bunch Of Fat People.

I Never Wanted To Be A Prophet Or A Saviour. Elvis Maybe

Every Cause That Ever I Fought, I Fought It Full Without Regret Or Shame.

You Five And Ten Cent Women With Nothing In Your Heads, I Got A Real Gal I'm Loving And Lord I'll Love Her 'til I'm Dead.

Don't Criticize What You Can't Understand.

I Have Always Believed That Fame Is A Curse. I Never Envied One Of The Famous People I've Known.

Life Is More Or Less A Lie, But Then Again, That's Exactly The Way We Want It To Be.

I Believe In You, Even Though I Be Outnumbered.

Shakespeare, He's In The Alley With His Pointed Shoes And His Bells, Speaking To Some French Girl Who Says She Knows Me Well.

He Gambled All His Life, He's Got 27 Children, Yet He's Never Had A Wife.

Remember When You're Out There Trying To Heal The Sick, That You Must Always First Forgive Them.

I Don't Know If I Call Myself A Poet Or Not. I Would Like To, But I'm Not Really Qualified To Make That Decision, Because I Come In On Such A Back Door, That I Don't Know What A Robert Frost Or A [john] Keats Or A T.s. Eliot Would Really Think Of My Stuff.

If You're Looking To Get Silly, You Better Go Back To From Where You Came. Because The Cops Don't Need You And Man They Expect The Same.

Some Formulas Are Too Complex And I Don't Want Anything To Do With Them.

Someone Showed Me A Picture And I Just Laughed, Dignity Never Been Photographed.

Time Is An Ocean, But It Ends At The Shore.

Sometimes I'm Thinkin' I'm Too High To Fall Other Times I'm Thinkin' I'm So Low I Don't Know If I Can Come Up At All

Well The Lone Ranger And Tonto, They Are Riding Down The Line Fixing Everybody's Troubles, Everybody Except Mine.

Anger And Jealousy's All That He Sells Us, He's Content When You're Under His Thumb. Madmen Oppose Him, But Your Kindness Throws Him, To Survive It You Play Deaf And Dumb.

There's Eyes Behind The Mirrors In Empty Places.

Just In Time For Bob Dylan To Recoil From The Attention, Leave The City For Woodstock, And Turn His Back On Fame.

The Sun's Not Yellow, Its Chicken!

I Can Be Jubilant One Moment And Pensive The Next, And A Cloud Could Go By And Make That Happen.

We're Living In Times Where Men Commit Crimes And Crime Don't Have A Face.

I Say There're No Depressed Words Just Depressed Minds.

When You've Got Nothing, You've Got Nothing To Loose.

Suddenly I Found You And The Spirit In Me Sings, Don't Have To Look No Further, You're The Soul Of Many Things.

She Makes Love Just Like A Woman.

I Was Never A Topical Songwriter.

Once You Think You Know The Song, Then You Have Go And See How Other People Have Done It.

People Disagreeing Everywhere You Look Makes You Wanna Stop And Read A Book.

You Know What They Say About Bein' Nice To The Right People On The Way Up Sooner Or Later You Gonna Meet Them Comin' Down

Jesus, That Ear. He Should Donate It To The Smithsonian. Brian Wilson, He Made All His Records With Four Tracks, But You Couldn't Make His Records If You Had A Hundred Tracks Today.

I Was Headed For The Fantastic Lights. No Doubt About It. Could It Be That I Was Being Deceived? Not Likely. I Don't Think I Had Enough Imagination To Be Deceived; Had No False Hope, Either. I'd Come From A Long Ways Off And Had Started From A Long Ways Down. But Now Destiny Was About To Manifest Itself. I Felt Like It Was Looking Right At Me And Nobody Else.

There's A Lot Of False Prophets Around And That's The Trouble. People Say They Think They Know What's Right And Other People Get People To Follow Them Because They Have A Certain Type Of Charisma, And There's Always People Willing To Take Over. People Want A Leader. And There Will Be More And More Of Them.

People Think They Know Me From My Songs. But My Repertoire Of Songs Is So Wide-ranging That You'd Have To Be A Madman To Figure Out The Characteristics Of The Person Who Wrote All Those Songs.

The Good Samaritan, He's Getting Dressed, He's Getting Ready For The Show. He's Going To The Carnival Tonight On Desolation Row.

The Ghosts Race Towards The Light, You Can Almost Hear The Heavy Breathing Spirits, All Determined To Get Somewhere. New Orleans, Unlike A Lot Of Places You Go Back To And That Don't Have The Magic Anymore, Still Has Got It. Night Can Swallow You Up, Yet None Of It Touches You. You Can't See It, But You Know It's Here. Somebody's Always Sinking.

She Never Stumbles, She's Got No Place To Fall. She's Nobody's Child, The Law Can't Touch Her At All.

If My Thought-dreams Could Be Seen/ They'd Probably Put My Head In A Guillotine.

Without Freedom Of Speech, I Might Be In The Swamp

Freedom Of Speech

Love Is All There Is, It Makes The World Go Around. Love And Only Love, It Can't Be Denied.

Then Take Me Disappearin' Through The Smoke Rings Of My Mind, Down The Foggy Ruins Of Time, Far Past The Frozen Leaves, The Haunted, Frightened Trees, Out To The Windy Beach, Far From The Twisted Reach Of Crazy Sorrow. Yes, To Dance Beneath The Diamond Sky With One Hand Waving Free, Silhouetted By The Sea, Circled By The Circus Sands, With All Memory And Fate Driven Deep Beneath The Waves, Let Me Forget About Today Until Tomorrow.

I'll Stand Over Your Grave 'til I'm Sure That You're Dead.

How Many Roads Must A Man Walk Down.. Before You Can Call Him A Man.

Rhetorical Question

Come Writers And Critics Who Prophesize With Your Pen And Keep Your Eyes Wide The Chance Won't Come Again And Don't Speak Too Soon For The Wheel's Still In Spin And There's No Tellin' Who That It's Namin' For The Loser Now Will Be Later To Win For The Times They Are A-changin'.

I'm Looking For A Woman Who's Head Is Mixed Up Like Mine.

I Never Could Guess Your Weight, Baby.

People Call You This Or That. But I Can't Respond Because Then It Seems Like I'm Defensive, You Know, What Does It Matter, Really?

Creativity Has A Lot To Do With The Main Idea. Inspiration Is What Comes When You Are Dealing With The Idea. But Inspiration Won't Invite What's Not There To Begin With.

Never Make It Perfect.

I Feel Like Falling In Love With The First Woman I Meet, Putting Her In A Wheel-barrow And Wheeling Her Down The Street.

I Ain't Saying You Treated Me Unkind You Could've Done Better, But I Don't Mind. You Just Kinda Wasted My Precious Time. But Don't Think Twice, It's Alright.

I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know.

Come Senators, Congressman, Please Heed The Call, Don't Stand In The Doorway, Don't Block The Hall.

Although The Masters Make The Rules For The Wise Men And The Fools, I've Got Nothing, Ma, To Live Up To.

Death To Me Means Nothing As Long As I Can Die Fast.

The Walls Of Pride Are High And Wide, Can't See Over To The Other Side.

You Just Don't Wake Up One Day And Decide That You Need To Write Songs.

Shakespeare's Last Play Was Called The Tempest. It Wasn't Called Just Plain Tempest. The Name Of My Record Is Just Plain Tempest. It's Two Different Titles.

Some Are Masters Of Illusions, Some Are Ministers Of Trade, All Under The Same Delusion, All Their Beds Unmade.

You Better Start Swimming, Or You'll Sink Like A Stone. Because The Time's They Are A-changing.

You Have To Look At Every One Of Your Songs And Be Able To Identify With Them In A Meaningful Way. You Can Hardly Sing Your Songs Unless You're In Them. If You Want To Fake It, Go Ahead. Fake It If You Want. But I'm Not That Kind Of Singer.

If Ever Asked To Look At Yourself, Don't.

Look At Yourself

It Will Scramble Your Head And Drag Your Brain About, Sometimes You Gotta Do Like Elvis Did And Shoot The Damn Thing Out.

Ain't It Just Like The Night To Play Tricks When You're Tryin' To Be So Quiet?

Come Mothers And Fathers Throughout The Land And Don't Criticize What You Can't Understand Your Sons And Your Daughters Are Beyond Your Command Your Old Road Is Rapidly Agin' 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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