You walk into the room like a camel and then put your eyes in your pockets and your nose on the ground. Bob Dylan More Quotes by Bob Dylan More Quotes From Bob Dylan Every day your memory grows dimmer - it doesn't haunt me like it did before. Bob Dylan our-memories grows memories If you like someone's work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to. Anyone who wants to be a songwriter should listen to as much folk music as they can, study the form and structure of stuff that has been around for 100 years. Bob Dylan important want years 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. Bob Dylan greed ambition people So now I'm going back again I got to get her somehow All the people we used to know They're an illusion to me now Some are mathematicians Some are carpenter's wives Don't know how it all got started I don't what they're doing with their lives But me I'm still on the road Heading for another joint We always did feel the same We just saw it from a different point of view Tangled up in Blue. Bob Dylan wife views blue I never wanted to be a prophet or a saviour. Elvis maybe Bob Dylan saviour prophet wanted Rod's a great singer. He's got a great voice, but there's no point to put a 30-piece orchestra behind him. I'm not going to knock anybody's right to make a living but you can always tell if somebody's heart and soul is into something, and I didn't think Rod was into it in that way. Bob Dylan voice heart thinking The world of research has gone berserk. Too much paper work. Bob Dylan research gone world Popular music had never had lyrical sophistication of this type [like Bob Dylan]; wit, to be sure, but "Darkness at the break of noon/Shadows even the silver spoon/The handmade blade, the child's balloon/Eclipses both the sun and moon/To understand you know too soon/ There is no sense in trying"? No. Bob Dylan moon darkness children I don't usually purge myself by writing anything about any type of quote, so-called, relationships. Bob Dylan type writing On the cliffs of your wild cat charms I'm riding. Bob Dylan riding cat expression I'm a liberal to a degree, I want everybody to be free. But if you think that I'll let Barry Goldwater move in next door. Bob Dylan doors moving thinking The first thing I know, I'm in a card game. Then I'm in a crap game. Bob Dylan games cards firsts I do know what my songs are about. Bob Dylan knows song Once I can focus in on something, I just play it in my mind until an idea comes from out of nowhere, and it's usually the key to the whole song. It's the idea that matters. It's like electricity was around long before Edison harnessed it. Bob Dylan play song ideas Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges. Bob Dylan college home graduation You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore. Bob Dylan forgive-me poetry artist Call me any name you like I will never deny it. Bob Dylan call-me deny names City's just a jungle; more games to play Trapped in the heart of it, tryin' to get away I was raised in the country, I been workin' in the town I been in trouble ever since I set my suitcase down Bob Dylan games heart country You will find God in the church of your choice. Bob Dylan deep-thought church choices I was lingering out on the pavement. There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him . . . I felt done for, an empty burned-out wreck . . . Wherever I am, I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows. Bob Dylan rocks done missing
