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.“

“Tweeter and the Monkey Man were hard up for cash
They stayed up all night selling cocaine and hash
To an undercover cop who had a sister named Jan
Who for reasons unexplained she loved the Monkey Man”

“You don't count the dead When God's on your side”

“The whole world's a bottle, And life's but a dram, When the bottle gets empty, It sure ain't worth a damn.”

“You look into the fiery furnace, see the rich man without any name.”

“I kiss good-bye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you from me.”

“Oh Mama, can this really be the end? To be stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again?”

“Oh, but if I had the stars from the darkest night
And the diamonds from the deepest ocean
I'd forsake them all for your sweet kiss
For that's all I'm wishin' to be ownin.”

“If someone had ever told me that I had the slightest chance of winning the Nobel Prize, I would have to think that I'd have about the same odds as standing on the moon.”

“If I thought about it, I never would have done it, I guess I would have let it slide.”

“I didn't go to classes. I just didn't feel like it.”

“Man's ego's inflated, his laws are outdated. They don't apply no more. You can't rely no more to be standing around waiting.”

“It sure do bother me to see my loved ones turning into puppets.”

“Bob Dylan: I do know what my songs are about.
Playboy: And what's that?
Bob Dylan: Oh, some are about four minutes; some are about five, and some, believe it or not, are about eleven or twelve.”

“Well, I see you got your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat
Yes, I see you got your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat
Well, you must tell me, baby
How your head feels under somethin' like that
Under your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat”

“There's only one step down from here, baby. It's called the Land of Permanent Bliss.”

“Wheels on fire, rolling down the road, best notify my next of kin, this wheel shall explode!”

“My clothes are wet, tight on my skin/but not as tight as the corner I painted myself in.”

“I live in another world, where life and death are memorized.”

“Shedding off one more layer of skin, keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within.”

“We are covered in blood, girl. You know both our forefathers were slaves. Let us hope they've found mercy in their bone-filled graves.”

“She said, "Welcome to the land of the living dead," but you could tell she was so brokenhearted — she said, "Even the swap meets around here are getting pretty corrupt."”

“Let me die in my footsteps before I go under the ground.”

“The only thing we knew for sure about Henry Porter was that his name wasn't Henry Porter.”

“An' though the rules of the road have been lodged
It's only people's games that you got to dodge”

“People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around — the music and the ideas.”

“The geometry of innocence flesh on the bone
Causes Galileo’s math book to get thrown
At Delilah who sits worthlessly alone
But the tears on her cheeks are from laughter”

“You sound like a hillbilly; We want folk singers here.”

“I'm sittin' on my watch so I can be on time.”

“Just how much abuse will you be able to take? Well, there's no way to tell by the first kiss.”