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.“

“A woman like you should be at home. That's where you belong, taking care of somebody nice who don't know how to do you wrong.”

“I like to do just like the rest,
I like my sugar sweet, but guarding fumes and making haste,
it ain't my cup of meat.”

“I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of.”

“It ain't no use a-talking to me
It's just the same as talking to you”

“The pump don't work
'Cause the vandals took the handles”

“You will start out standing, proud to steal her anything she sees, but you will wind up peeking through her keyhole down upon your knees.”

“Bob Dylan: The media is all-pervasive. What can a writer think of to write that you don't see every day in a newspaper or on television?
Interviewer: …Do you think that TV and the media have killed poetry and literature?
Bob Dylan: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. … What's a writer to do if every idea is exposed in the media before he can get to it or let it evolve? What's a writer gonna write about? … We're living in a science-fiction world. We're living in a world that Disney has conquered. Disney's science fiction. Theme parks, trendy streets, it's all science fiction. So I would say, if a writer has got something to say, he'll have to do it in that–
Interviewer: Outside of the real world?
Bob Dylan: There is a real world. Science fiction has become the real world. Whether we realize it or not, it has.”

“The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face.”

“You lose yourself, you reappear
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
Alone you stand with nobody near
When a trembling distant voice, unclear
Startles your sleeping ear to hear
That somebody thinks they really found you”

“She left one too many a boy behind
He committed suicide”

“And if you hear vague traces of skipping reels of rhyme…”

“We may not be able to defeat these swine, but we don't have to join them.”

“A change in the weather is known to be extreme; but what's the sense in changing horses in mid-stream?”

“Drownin' in the poison, got not future got no past.”

“The ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming.”

“I had to say something to strike him very weird so I yelled out "I like Fidel Castro and his beard."”

“Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail,
The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder,
That the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breeze
Leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder
Striking for the gentle, striking for the kind,
Striking for the guardians and protectors of the mind,
An’ the poet and the painter far behind his rightful time
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.”

“Some one else is speaking with my mouth, but I'm listening only to my heart.”

“It's sundown on the union that was made in the USA. Sure was a good idea till greed got in the way.”

“I helped her out of a jam, I guess, but I used a little too much force…”

“I had been in a motorcycle accident and I'd been hurt, but I recovered. Truth was that I wanted to get out of the rat race. Having children changed my life and segregated me from just about everybody and everything that was going on. Outside of my family, nothing held any real interest for me and I was seeing everything through different glasses.”

“It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If you don't know by now”

“I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.”

“Take your clothes, put 'em in a sack. You goin' down the road, baby, and you cant come back. Someday baby, you ain't gonna worry po' me any more.”

“I used to think that myself and my songs were the same thing. But I don't believe that any more. There's myself and there's my song, which I hope is everybody's song.”

“They say in your father's house there's many mansions; each one of 'em got a fireproof floor.”

“Even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have to stand naked”

“He’s sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all”

“They tell you "Time is money," as if your life was worth its weight in gold.”