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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.

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I Wanted To Understand

Bob Dylan

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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.

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God Got The Power, Man Has Got His Vanity. Man Gotta Choose Before God Can Set Him Free.

I'm Speaking For All Of Us. I'm The Spokesman For A Generation.

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Being Singer Is Different Than Being An Actor, Where You Call Up Sources From Your Own Experience That You Can Apply To Whatever Shakespeare Drama You're In. But An Actor Is Pretending To Be Somebody, A Singer Isn't. And That's The Difference. Singers Today Have To Sing Songs Where There's Very Little Emotion Involved. That And The Fact That They Have To Sing Hit Records From Years Gone By Doesn't Leave A Lot Of Room For Any Kind Of Intelligent Creativity.

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

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Music Can Save People, But It Can't In The Commercial Way It's Being Used. It's Just Too Much. It's Pollution.

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In The Dime Stores And Bus Stations  People Talk Of Situations  Read Books, Repeat Quotations  Draw Conclusions On The Wall  Some Speak Of The Future  My Love She Speaks Softly  She Knows There’s No Success Like Failure  And That Failure’s No Success At All -bob Dylan, “love Minus Zero / No Limit” (1965)

Most Songs Have Bridges In Them, To Distract Listeners From The Main Verses Of A Song So They Don't Get Bored. My Songs Don't Have A Lot Of Bridges Because Lyric Poetry Never Had Them.

I'd Been Going Though His Trash. He Knocked Me Down. I Was Glad To See Him, Even Though He Was Banging My Head Against The Sidewalk. Afterwards These Bums Come Over And Say, 'did He Get Much Money?' I Say, 'money'? That Was Bob Dylan.

The Government's Not Going To Create Jobs. It Doesn't Have To. People Have To Create Jobs.

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Don't Criticize What You Can't Understand.

Now The Wintertime Is Coming The Windows Are Filled With Frost I Went To Tell Everybody But I Could Not Get Across Well, I Wanna Be Your Lover, Baby I Don't Wanna Be Your Boss Don't Say I Never Warned You When Your Train Gets Lost.

People's Lives Are Filled With Vice And The Trappings Of It. Ambition, Greed And Selfishness All Have To Do With Vice. Sooner Or Later, You Have To See Through It Or You Don't Survive.

People Think That Singing And Playing Is Easy. It's Not. It's Easy To Strum Along, But If You Actually Want To Really Play, Where It's Important, That's A Hard Thing And Not Too Many People Are Good At It.

I Fought With My Twin, The Enemy Within.

Too Much Information About Nothing.

Too Much Information

You’re A Cow Give Me Some Milk Or Else Go Home

How Many Roads Must A Man Walk Down Before Your Can Call Him A Man? . . . The Answer, My Friend, Is Blowin' In The Wind, The Answer Is Blowin' In The Wind.

Satan Will Give You A Little Taste, Then He'll Move In With Rapid Speed.

It Frightens Me, The Awful Truth, Of How Sweet Life Can Be.

I Heard The Tongues Of Angels And The Tongues Of Men And It All Sounded No Different To Me.

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.

Ain't It Hard When You Discover That, He Wasn't Really Where It's At, After He Took From You Everything He Could Steal. How Does It Feel?

I Make My Stand And Remain As I Am, And Bid Farewell And Not Give A Damn.

Don't Wanna Marry Nobody, If They're Already Married.

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You Been Down To The Bottom With A Bad Man, Babe But You're Back Were You Belong

There's Beauty In The Silver Singing River There's Beauty In The Sunrise In The Sky But None Of These And Nothing Else Can Match The Beauty That I Remember In My True Love's Eyes

I Consider Myself A Poet First And A Musician Second. I Live Like A Poet And I'll Die Like A Poet.

When You Asked Me How I Was Doing, Was That Some Kind Of Joke

Each One Of Them Suffering From The Failures Of Their Day, With Strings Of Guilt They Tried Hard To Guide Us.

Keep A Good Head And Always Carry A Light Bulb.

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Mona Lisa Must Have Had The Highway Blues; You Can Tell By The Way She Smiles.

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I Gave Her My Heart But She Wanted My Soul.

Take Me Disappearing, Through The Smoke Rings Of My Mind, Down The Foggy Ruins Of Time.

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Forget The Dead You've Left, They Will Not Follow You.

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Cop Comes Down The Street Crazy As A Loon, He Throws Us In Jail For Carrying Harpoons.

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Since My Feet Are Now Fast And Point Away From The Past, I'll Bid Farewell And Be Down The Line.

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

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Feel Like A Broke-down Engine, Ain't Got No Drivin' Wheel. You All Been Down And Lonesome, You Know Just How A Poor Man Feels.

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

A Poem Is A Naked Person.

Sometimes You Get Out From Behind The Wheel And Let Someone Else Step On The Gas.

We Shouldn't Confuse Singers And Performers With Actors. Actors Will Say, "my Character This, And My Character That." Like Beating A Dead Horse. Who Cares About The Character? Just Get Up And Act. You Don't Have To Explain It To Me.

I Hurt Easy, I Just Don't Show It. You Can Hurt Someone And Not Even Know It.

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.

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But I Would Not Feel So All Alone, Everybody Must Get Stoned.

As He Weeps To Wicked Birds Of Prey, Who Pick Up On His Bread Crumb Sins, And There Are No Sins Inside The Gates Of Eden.

People Talk About Frank Sinatra All The Time - And They Should Talk About Frank - But He Had The Greatest Arrangers. They Worked For Him In A Different Kind Of Way Than They Worked For Other People. They Gave Him Arrangements That Are Just Sublime On Every Level. And He, Of Course, Could Match That Because He Had This Ability To Get Inside Of The Song In A Sort Of A Conversational Way. Frank Sang To You, Not At You, Like So Many Pop Singers Today. Even Singers Of Standards.

Sundown, Yellow Moon, I Replay The Past I Know Every Scene By Heart, They All Went By So Fast

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Yesterday Is Just A Memory.

You Use To Ride On The Chrome Horse With Your Diplomat, Who Carried On His Shoulder A Siamese Cat.

I Wouldn't Even Think Of Playing Music If I Was Born In These Times. I Wouldn't Even Listen To The Radio.

Being On Tour Is Like Being In Limbo. It's Like Going From Nowhere To Nowhere.

Nowhere To Turn

Beauty Walks A Razors Edge, Someday I'll Make It Mine.

She's A Hypnotist Collector; You Are A Walking Antique.

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

I Think I Have A Dualistic Nature.

Here's The Thing With Me And The Religious Thing. This Is The Flat-out Truth: I Find The Religiosity And Philosophy In The Music. I Don't Find It Anywhere Else.

So I Cut Off My Hair And I Rode Straight Away, To The Wild Unknown Country Where I Could Not Go Wrong.

It May Look Like I'm Moving But I'm Standing Still.

Experience Teaches Us That Silence Terrifies People The Most.

If You're Not Busy Being Born, You're Busy Dying.

Every Writer At The New Yorker Is Smarter Than Me.

I Can't See My Reflection In The Waters, I Can't Speak The Sounds That Show No Pain. I Can't Hear The Echo Of My Footsteps, Or Can't Remember The Sound Of My Own Name.

I'm Just Glad To Be Feeling Better. I Really Thought I'd Be Seeing Elvis Soon.

I Just Try To Understand That Tomorrow Is Another Day.

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

There Would Be Brilliant Songs, But, As [bob] Dylan Admitted On The Recent Martin Scorsese Documentary About Him (no Direction Home), The Specific Muse That Inspired "it's Alright Ma" Would Not Return.

I Ain't Looking To Compete With You, Beat, Or Cheat, Or Mistreat You, Simplify You, Classify You, Deny, Defy, Or Crucify You. All I Really Want To Do Is, Baby, Be Friends With You.

You'll Find God In The Church Of Your Choice, You'll Find Woody Guthrie In The Brooklyn State Hospital.

Let Me Feel Your Love One More Time Before I Abandon It.

Really The Truth Is Just A Plain Picture. A Plain Picture Of, Let's Say, A Tramp Vomiting In The Sewere. You Know, And Next Door To The Picture Mr. Rockefeller Or Mr. C. W. Jones On The Subway Going To Work. You Know, Any Kind Of Picture. Just Make A Collage Of Pictures.

Twenty Years Of Schooling And They Put You On The Day Shift - Look Out Out Kid, They Keep It All Hid

Take Me On A Trip Upon Your Magic Swirling Ship.

You Shouldn't Let Other People Get Your Kicks For You.

Madonna, She Still Has Not Showed, We See This Empty Cage Now Corrode, Where Her Cape Of The Stage Once Had Flowed, The Fiddler He Now Steps To The Road, On The Back Of The Fish Truck That Loads, While My Conscience Explodes.

How Can The Life Of Such A Man Be In The Palm Of Some Fools Hand?

The National Bank At Profit Sells Road Maps For The Soul.

I Was Sick Of The Way My Lyrics Had Been Extrapolated, Their Meanings Subverted Into Polemics And That I Had Been Anointed As The Big Bubba Of Rebellion, High Priest Of Protest, The Duke Of Disobedience, Leader Of The Freeloaders, Kaiser Of Apostasy, Archbishop Of Anarchy, The Big Cheese. Horrible Titles Any Way You Want To Look At It. All Code Words For Outlaw.

Why Nicolas Sarkozy Is The Head Of France, [he Is] Warm And Extremely Likeable.

They Said, Congratulations You Got What It Takes. They Sent Him Back To The Rat Race Without Any Brakes.

Congratulations

I Believe That Instinct Is What Makes A Genius A Genius.

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

My Songs Always Sound A Lot Better In Person Than They Do On The Record.

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.

Clowns To The Left Of Me, Jokers To The Right, Here I Am.

Stuck In The Middle

The One Who Is Not Being Born Is Dying.

I Never Saw Myself As A Folk Singer.

I Wish That For Just One Time You Could Stand Inside My Shoes. You'd Know What A Drag It Is To See You.

How Many Roads Must A Man Walk Down, Before You Call Him A Man? How Many Seas Must A White Dove Sail, Before She Sleeps In The Sand? Yes, And How Many Times Must The Cannon Balls Fly, Before They're Forever Banned?

Your Heart Is Like The Ocean, Mysterious And Dark.

Stop All This Weeping, Swallow Your Pride/ You Will Not Die, Its Not Poison -tombstone Blues

A Million Faces At My Feet But All I See Are Dark Eyes.

The Drunken Politician Leaps Upon The Street Where Mothers Weep, And The Saviors Who Are Fast Asleep, They Wait For You.

It Was [meeting With Nicolas Sarkozy] Like Looking At My Mirror Image.

Proud To Steal Her Anything She Sees, But You Will Wind Up Peeking Through Her Key Hole Down Upon Your Knees.

Low Self Esteem

I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know.

Every Man's Conscience Is Vile And Depraved / You Cannot Depend On It To Be Your Guide When It’s You Who Must Keep It Satisfied.

For Whose Sake Did You Live, For Whose Sake Did You Die? Forgive Me, Baby, For What I Didn't Do.

Happiness Is Not On My List Of Priorities. I Just Deal With Day-to-day Things. If I'm Happy, I'm Happy – And If I'm Not, I Don't Know The Difference... Knowing That You Are The Person You Were Put On This Earth To Be – That's Much More Important Than Just Being Happy.

The Song Was There Before Me, Before I Came Along. I Just Sorta Came Down And Just Sorta Took It Down With A Pencil, But It Was There Before I Came Around.

In This Age Of Fiberglass, I'm Searching For A Gem.

I Never Could Guess Your Weight, Baby.

I've Been Sitting Down Studying The Art Of Love. I Think It Will Fit Me Like A Glove.

You Call Yourself What You Want To Call Yourself. This Is The Land Of The Free.

Land Of The Free

I'm Good With Songs I Haven't Written, If I Like Them. I'm Glad I Didn't Write Any Of Them. I Already Know How They Go, So I Have More Freedom With Them. I Understand These Songs. I've Known Them For 40 Years, 50 Years, Maybe Longer, And They Make A Lot Of Sense. So I'm Not Coming To Them Like A Stranger.

Now, Each Of Us Has His Own Special Gift And You Know This Was Meant To Be True. And If You Don't Underestimate Me I Won't Underestimate You.

Were Meant To Be

I Bargained For Salvation And They Gave Me A Lethal Dose.

Folk Music Is A Bunch Of Fat People.

Idiot Wind, Blowing Every Time You Move Your Teeth. You're An Idiot Babe, It's A Wonder That You Still Know How To Breathe.

The Only Sound That's Left After The Ambulances Go Is Cinderella Sweeping Up On Desolation Row.

My Songs Are Personal Music, They're Not Communal. I Wouldn't Want People Singing Along With Me. It Would Sound Funny. I'm Not Playing Campfire Meetings. I Don't Remember Anyone Singing Along With Elvis, Carl Perkins Or Little Richard.

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

Chaos Is A Friend Of Mine.

Yes, To Dance Beneath The Diamond Sky With One Hand Waving Free, Silhouetted By The Sea, Circled By The Circus Sands

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The Picture You Have In Your Mind Of What You're About Will Come True.

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

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

They Kill People Here Who Stand Up For Their Rights The System's Just Too Damned Corrupt It's Always The Same, The Name Of The Game Is Who Do You Know Higher Up

There Used To Be A Time When The Idea Of Heroes Was Important. People Grew Up Sharing Those Myths And Legends And Ideals. Now They Grow Up Sharing Mcdonalds And Disneyland.

I Took Her By The Hand And My Heart It Was Thumpin'. When She Said, Hey Man, You Crazy Or Somethin'?

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.

Mainstream Culture

Shadows Are Falling And I've Been Here All Day/it's Too Hot To Sleep, Time Is Running Away/feel Like My Soul Has Turned Into Steel/i've Still Got The Scars That The Sun Didn't Heal.

You Don't Count The Dead, When God's On Your Side.

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