Bob Dylan Zitate

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„Ich akzeptiere das Chaos, ich bin mir aber nicht sicher, ob es mich akzeptiert.“

„Ein Mann ist erfolgreich, wenn er morgens aufsteht, abends ins Bett geht und dazwischen macht, was er möchte.“

„Kritisieren Sie nicht, was Sie nicht verstehen können.“

„Manchmal reicht es nicht aus zu wissen, was die Dinge bedeuten. Manchmal muss man wissen, was die Dinge nicht bedeuten.“

„Aber um außerhalb des Gesetzes zu leben, musst Du ehrlich sein.“

„Wenn du nichts hast, hast du nichts zu verlieren. Nun bist du unsichtbar, du hast keine Geheimnisse zu verbergen.“

„Spiel es verdammt laut!“

„Und ich werde auf dem Meer stehen, bis ich anfange zu sinken.“

„Ich habe mehr vergessen, als du jemals wissen wirst.“

“I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's.”

“For man has invented his doom; first step was touching the moon.”

“You can't win with a losing hand”

“A cat's meow and a cow's moo,
I can recite 'em all,
just tell me where it hurts you, honey,
and I'll tell you who to call.”

“If she's passing back this way I'm not that hard to find
Tell her she can look me up if she's got the time.”

“When you bite off more than you can chew, you pay the penalty, somebody's got to tell the tale, I guess it must be up to me.”

“Take care of all your memories. said my friend Mick, For you cannot relive them.”

“I'll eat when I'm hungry, drink when I'm dry”

“I'm gonna spare the defeated—I'm gonna speak to the crowd
I'm gonna spare the defeated, boys, I'm going to speak to the crowd
I am goin' to teach peace to the conquered
I'm gonna tame the proud”

“You go to Sodom and Gomorrah, but what do you care? Ain't nobody there would want to marry your sister.”

“I put one on the turntable and when the needle dropped, I was stunned — didn't know if I was stoned or straight… All these songs together, one after another made my head spin. It made me want to gasp. It was like the land parted.”

“My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.”

“Man is opposed to fair play: he wants it all, and he wants it his way.”

“But I see through your eyes”

“You may call me Bobby; you may call me Zimmy…”

“They'd like to drive me from this town; they don't want me around, 'cause I believe in you.”

“Let me feel your love one more time before I abandon it.”

“Feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet… Putting her in a wheel barrow and wheeling her down the street.”

“I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know there are some people terrified of the bomb, but there are others terrified to be seen carrying a Modern Screen magazine. Experience teaches that silence terrifies the most.”

“Love is so simple, to quote a phrase; you've known it all the time, I'm learnin' it these days.”

“I am a writer an a singer of the words I write I am no speaker nor any politician an my songs speak for me because I write them in the confinement of my own mind an have t cope with no one except my own self.”

“I couldn’t see when it started snowin’
Your voice was all that I heard”

“I know where I can find you — in somebody's room. It's the price I have to pay, you're a big girl all the way.”

“Louise she's all right she's just near'
She's delicate and seems like veneer'
But she just makes it all too concise and too clear'
That Johanna's not here”

“Nobody sees through him — no, not even the chief of police.”

“If your memory serves you well, I was gonna confiscate your lace and wrap it up in a sailor's knot and hide it in your case.
And if I knew for sure that it was yours, it was oh so hard to tell, and you know that we shall meet again, if your memory serves you well.”

“Now there's spiritual warfare, flesh and blood breaking down. You either got faith or you got unbelief, and there ain't no neutral ground.”

“But I’ll know my song well before I start singin’.”

“I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings
And I've never been too impressed”