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.“

“May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung. May your song always be sung, May you stay forever young.”

“And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They'd probably put my head in a guillotine
But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only”

“Like Shakespeare, I too am often occupied with the pursuit of my creative endeavors and dealing with all aspects of life's mundane matters. "Who are the best musicians for these songs?" "Am I recording in the right studio?" "Is this song in the right key?" Some things never change, even in 400 years. Not once have I ever had the time to ask myself, "Are my songs literature?" So, I do thank the Swedish Academy, both for taking the time to consider that very question, and, ultimately, for providing such a wonderful answer.”

“As a performer I've played for 50,000 people and I've played for 50 people and I can tell you that it is harder to play for 50 people. 50,000 people have a singular persona, not so with 50. Each person has an individual, separate identity, a world unto themselves. They can perceive things more clearly. Your honesty and how it relates to the depth of your talent is tried.”

“You've been with the professors and they've all liked your looks. With great lawyers you've discussed lepers and crooks.”

“If your mem'ry serves you well, we were gonna meet again and wait, so I think I'll just unpack my bags and sit before it gets too late.
No man alive will come to you with another tale to tell, but you know that we shall meet again, if your mem'ry serves you well.”

“I think what I need might be a full-length leather coat
Somebody just asked me
If I registered to vote”

“Do you take me for such a fool to think I'd make contact with one that tries to hide what he don't know to begin with.”

“Well, it's sugar for sugar
And salt for salt
If you go down in the flood
It's gonna be your own fault”

“Jan had told him many times "it was you to me who taught:
in Jersey anything's legal as long as you don't get caught"”

“His clothes are dirty, but his hands are clean, and you're the best thing that he's ever seen.”

“Lord knows I've paid some dues gettin' through…”

“Say for me that I'm all right though things get kind of slow
She might think that I've forgotten her don't tell her it isn't so.”

“A lot of people complaining that there is no work. I say, "Why you say that for?" When nothin' you got is US-made — they don't make nothin' here no more.”

“I can't believe we've lived so long and are still so far apart.”

“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?”

“Oh all the money that in my whole life I did spend
Be it mine right or wrongfully
I let it slip gladly past the hands of my friends
To tie up the time most forcefully”

“And the National Bank at a profit sells road maps for the soul
To the old folks home and the college”

“But my heart is not weary; it's light and it's free
I've got nothing but affection for those who've sailed with me.”

“I didn't know whether to duck or to run, so I ran.”

“Sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.”

“Far between sundown’s finish an’ midnight’s broken toll,
We ducked inside the doorway, thunder crashing.
As majestic bells of bolts struck shadows in the sounds,
Seeming to be the chimes of freedom flashing.
Flashing for the warriors whose strength is not to fight,
Flashing for the refugees on the unarmed road of flight,
An’ for each an’ ev’ry underdog soldier in the night,
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.”

“I paid the price of solitude but at least I'm out of debt.”

“I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows. I'm in the bottomless pit of cultural oblivion.”

“Morality has nothing in common with politics.”

“Colleges are like old-age homes; except for the fact that more people die in colleges.”

“Truth is an arrow, and the gate is narrow that it passes through.”

“Love is all there is, it makes the world go 'round
Love and only love, it can’t be denied
No matter what you think about it
You just won’t be able to do without it
Take a tip from one who's tried”

“The one was Texas medicine. the other was just railroad gin. And, like a fool, I mixed them and it strangled up my mind and now people just get uglier and I have no sense of time.”