Frases de Bob Dylan

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“Eu aceito o caos, não tenho certeza se me aceita.”

“A felicidade não está na estrada que leva a algum lugar. A felicidade é a própria estrada.”

“Uns sentem a chuva, outros apenas se molham.”

“Não sou eu. São as músicas. Eu sou só o carteiro. Eu entrego as músicas.”

“Suas roupas estão sujas, mas suas mãos estão limpas E você é a melhor coisa que ele já viu. Lay lady lay”

“Um homem é um sucesso se pula da cama pela manhã, vai dormir à noite e, nesse meio tempo, faz o que gosta.”

“O primeiro agora será o último mais tarde. Pois os tempos, eles estão mudando.”

“Você não pode ser sábio e estar amando ao mesmo tempo.”

“Toda essa conversa sobre a igualdade. A única coisa que as pessoas realmente têm em comum é que eles estão todos indo para morrer”

“A única coisa que as pessoas tem em comum é que estão todas caminhando em direção a morte.”

“Eu queria pôr fogo naquela gente. Todos aqueles arrombadores, assombrações, invasores e demagogos atrapalhavam minha vida doméstica (…). O que quer que fosse a contracultura, eu estava farto dela. Estava farto das interpretações malucas de minhas letras e do fato de ter sido ungido o Chefão da Revolta, o Grande Sacerdote do Protesto, o Czar da Discordância, o Duque da Desobediência, o Líder dos Doidões (…).”

“Sempre fui atraído por certo tipo de mulher. É a voz, mais do que qualquer coisa. Ouço primeiro a voz.”

“Ouvir Elvis é como escapar da prisão.”

“Eu fazia canções, não eram sermões. Se examinarem as canções, não acredito que encontrem nada que digo que sou porta-voz de alguém ou de alguma coisa”

“Eu canto tão bem quanto Caruso.”

“Às vezes em minhas canções sou eu falando comigo.”

“Estou contente por ter melhorado. Realmente cheguei a pensar que logo iria ver Elvis.”

“A maioria desses caras assume o cargo com as melhores das intenções e o deixam como homens derrotados.”

“Ele é uma bicha delirante com cérebro de anfetamina cósmica. É, eu curto Shakeaspere.”

“Quando eu ouvi a voz de Elvis pela primeira vez eu sabia que não ia trabalhar para ninguém e ninguém seria meu chefe. Ele é o deus supremo do rock and roll hoje. Ouvir Elvis e como escapar da prisão. Eu agradeço à Deus por Elvis Presley.”

“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.”