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United States songwriter noted for his protest songs (born in 1941)

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A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

– Bob Dylan

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Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

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All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

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Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

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He not busy being born is busy dying.

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How does it feel?

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How many times must the cannonballs fly before they're forever banned?

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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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I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

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I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

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I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

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If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through the dust no matter how thick.

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In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

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Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way.

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People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

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

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She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

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Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

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The radio makes hideous sounds.

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

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To live outside the law you must be honest.

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What's money A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

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When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.

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You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past -- whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

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Quotes from the news wire:

Prine's stuff is pure Proustian existentialism. Midwestern mindtrips to the nth degree. And he writes beautiful songs.

– Bob Dylan

Found on Reuters 4 years ago

It wasn't a success, not if you measure success in terms of profit. But it was an adventure.

– Bob Dylan

Found on Reuters 4 years ago

Leon Redbonecrossed went on to put out 16 more records. Leon Redbonecrossed career got a boost in the early 1970s when Bob Dylan met Bob Dylan at the Mariposa Folk Festival in Ontario, Canada, and praised Leon Redbonecrossed performance. Bob Dylan said that if Bob Dylan ever started a label, Bob Dylan would have signed Leon Redbonecrossed. Leon interests me, ive heard hes anywhere from 25 to 60, Ive been( a foot and a half from him) and I cant tell, but you got ta see him. He does old Jimmie Rodgers, then turns around and does a Robert Johnson.

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Found on FOX News 4 years ago

I'm glad that my archives, which have been collected all these years, have finally found a home and are to be included with the works of Woody Guthrie... To me, it makes a lot of sense and it's a great honor.

– Bob Dylan

Found on Reuters 8 years ago

I don't see Bob Dylan as covering these songs in any way. They've been covered enough. Buried, as a matter a fact. What me and my band are basically doing is uncovering them. Lifting them out of the grave and bringing them into the light of day, shadows in the Night.

– Bob Dylan

Found on Reuters 8 years ago

All I know is that I was out recording one day, and Tom had always been there -- I had no reason to think he wasn't going to be there -- and I looked up one day and Bob Johnston was there.

– Bob Dylan

Found on CNN 8 years ago

I'm glad for my songs to be honored like this. But, you know, they didn't get here themselves. It's been a long road and it's taken a lot of doing.

– Bob Dylan

Found on FOX News 9 years ago

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