I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.


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I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master.
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I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that.
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I've never gone into an interview in my life and said that we can't talk about something.
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Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
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All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.
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It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
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I've never worried about how long the song is.
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Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
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In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.
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People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
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But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.
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Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
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For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.
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Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
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The times they are a-changing.
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Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!
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All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
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Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.
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Don't criticize what you can't understand.
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A poem is a naked person....Some people say that I am a poet.
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When you ain't got nothin', you got nothin' to lose.
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The picture you have in your mind of what you're about will come true.
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Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do.
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Folk music is a bunch of fat people.
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It fell from a 10 story building and exploded in front of me.
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You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.
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Play it fuckin' loud!
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I kinda live where I find myself.
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I'm inconsistent, even to myself.
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Everybody is even making love or else expecting rain
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Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.
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People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book.
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I didn't come out of a cereal box.
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I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.
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Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
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I don't believe you. You're a liar.
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I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
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Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
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I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.
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You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way.
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Steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and they make you king.
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Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
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The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind
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Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn).
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Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
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Somebody had to be Bob Dylan. I guess I was best equipped to do the job.
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Blonde on Blonde.
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You're gonna have to serve somebody.
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I'm not a playwright.
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All I can be is me- whoever that is.
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[Neil Young's lyrics from his 1988 hit] This Notes For You ... The Times They Are A Changing.
BOB DYLAN
I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so I'm on my way home.
BOB DYLAN
May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.
BOB DYLAN
I wanna say hello to all the ex-hippies tonight. I've never been a hippie myself but I'm an honorary...
BOB DYLAN
Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
BOB DYLAN
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed aroun...
BOB DYLAN
When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.
BOB DYLAN
I don't think I'm tangible to myself.
BOB DYLAN
There's beauty in the silver singing river, There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky, But none of th...
BOB DYLAN
reality has too many heads
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Dostoevsky, too, had lived a dismal and hard life. The czar sent him to a prison camp in Siberia in ...
BOB DYLAN
If you're looking to get silly, you better go back to from where you came. because the cops don't ne...
BOB DYLAN
they say every man needs protection, they say every man must fall.
yet I swear I see my reflect...
BOB DYLAN
I had no time for romance. I turned away from the window, from the wintry sun, crossed through the r...
BOB DYLAN
But, like Shakespeare, I too am often occupied with the pursuit of my creative endeavors and dealing...
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Once upon a time You dressed so fine
BOB DYLAN
I never took much, I never asked for your crutch, Now don't ask for mine.
BOB DYLAN
In another life, I could have been you," she'd say.
"Yeah, but then I wouldn't have been the s...
BOB DYLAN
She's got everything she needs; she's an artist, she don't look back.
BOB DYLAN
The Duke [John Wayne] was a massive figure. He looked like a heavy piece of hauled lumber, and it di...
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