Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you, but no, you will not be deceived. Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt, you can give but you cannot receive. Bob Dylan More Quotes by Bob Dylan More Quotes From Bob Dylan The corporations have taken over. Even in the recording studio. Actually, the corporate companies have taken over American life most everywhere. Go coast to coast and you will see people wearing the same clothes, thinking the same thoughts, eating the same food. Everything is processed. Bob Dylan clothestakenthinking Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king. Bob Dylan jailpoliticskings People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them. Bob Dylan hard-timesacceptingpeople The purpose of music is to elevate the spirit and inspire. Not to help push some product down your throat. It puts you in tune with your own existence. Sometimes you really don't know how you feel, but really good music can define how you feel... someone who's telling me where he's been that I haven't and what it's like there - somebody whose life I can feel. Bob Dylan tunespurposeinspire Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content. Bob Dylan painsufferingpeople I've never been able to understand the seriousness of it all, the seriousness of pride. People talk, act, live as if they're never going to die. And what do they leave behind? Nothing. Nothing but a mask. Bob Dylan ablepridepeople I just try to understand that tomorrow is another day. Bob Dylan another-daytomorrowtrying If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show you the scars. Bob Dylan paradisesweetbelieve All the money you made will never buy back your soul. Bob Dylan your-soulsoulmade Everything passes, Everything changes, Just do what you think you should do. Bob Dylan changeshouldthinking You get older. You start having hopes for other people rather than yourself. Bob Dylan having-hopepeople Sometimes the silence can be like thunder. Bob Dylan thundersilencesometimes You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more Bob Dylan opportunitydoorsinspirational Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most. Bob Dylan chaossilencepeople I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours. Bob Dylan hippiedreamlove You can't be wise and in love at the same time. Bob Dylan loverelationshiplife I've always been the kind of person that doesn't like to trespass, but sometimes you just find yourself over the line. Bob Dylan finding-yourselflineskind A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life, and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness. Happiness is a state of bliss. Just because you're satisfied one moment - saying yes, it's a good meal, makes me happy - well, that's not going to necessarily be true the next hour. Life has its ups and downs, and time has to be your partner. Time is your soul mate. Children are happy. But they haven't really experienced ups and downs yet. I'm not exactly sure what happiness even means. I don't know if I personally could define it. Bob Dylan selfmeanchildren 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. Bob Dylan recordstrackjesus All the people we used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Bob Dylan illusionfriendshippeople