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.“

“And I'll tell it and speak it and think it and breathe it.”

“But I mean no harm nor put fault
On anyone that lives in a vault
But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him”

“Come all without, come all within,
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn.”

“Somebody got lucky, but it was an accident.”

“I kinda live where I find myself.”

“A lot of people don't have much food on their table
But they got a lot of forks and knives
And they gotta cut something”

“Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made”

“You can have your cake and eat it, too.”

“Took a stranger to teach me to look into justice's beautiful face, and to see an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.”

“Oh God said to Abraham, Kill me a son.
Abe says, Man, you must be puttin' me on.
God say, No. Abe say, What?
God say, You can do what you want Abe, but
the next time you see me comin' you better run.
Well Abe says, Where do you want this killin' done?
God says, Out on Highway 61.”

“They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.”

“Time is a jetplane — it moves too fast. Oh but what a shame that all we've shared can't last…”

“Yonder stands your orphan with his gun, crying like a fire in the sun.”

“I met a white man who walked a black dog.”

“And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot
Fighting in the captain's tower
While calypso singers laugh at them
And fishermen hold flowers…”

“The first two lines, which rhymed 'kiddin' you' and 'didn't you,' just about knocked me out, and later on, when I got to the jugglers and the chrome horse and the princess on the steeple, it all just about got to be too much.”

“There's lots of pretty girls in Mozambique.”

“Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Make everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It's easy to see without looking too far
That not much is really sacred”

“I am hanging in the balance of the reality of man
Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand”

“But I would not feel so all alone, everybody must get stoned!”

“You see, you're just like me. I hope you're satisfied.”

“Everything passes
Everything changes
Just do what you think you should do
And someday maybe
Who knows, baby
I'll come and be cryin' to you”

“It was gravity which pulled us in and destiny which broke us apart”

“I'm not sorry for nothin' I've done
I'm glad I fought—I only wish we'd won”

“And Louise holds a handful of rain, tempting you to defy it.”

“I began to think about William Shakespeare, the great literary figure. I would reckon he thought of himself as a dramatist. The thought that he was writing literature couldn't have entered his head. His words were written for the stage. Meant to be spoken not read. When he was writing Hamlet, I'm sure he was thinking about a lot of different things: "Who're the right actors for these roles?" "How should this be staged?" "Do I really want to set this in Denmark?" His creative vision and ambitions were no doubt at the forefront of his mind, but there were also more mundane matters to consider and deal with. "Is the financing in place?" "Are there enough good seats for my patrons?" "Where am I going to get a human skull?"”

“They talk about a life of brotherly love? Show me someone who knows how to live it.”

“How many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn't see?”

“When I saw you break down in front of the judge and cry real tears, it was the best damn thing I saw anybody do.”