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“I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy.”
Bob Dylan
“I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself.”
Bob Dylan
“I'm inconsistent, even to myself.”
Bob Dylan
“I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.”
Bob Dylan
“It's hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.”
Bob Dylan
“Nothing can affect my voice, it's so bad.”
Bob Dylan
“People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young.”
Bob Dylan
“Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.”
Bob Dylan
“A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.”
Bob Dylan
“Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.”
Bob Dylan
“Folk music is a bunch of fat people.”
Bob Dylan
“Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.”
Bob Dylan
“I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.”
Bob Dylan
“I can't act!”
Bob Dylan
“I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.”
Bob Dylan
“I can't stand to see myself on television.”
Bob Dylan
“I don't think I'm tangible to myself.”
Bob Dylan
“I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.”
Bob Dylan
“I kinda live where I find myself.”
Bob Dylan
“I never saw myself as a folk singer.”
Bob Dylan
“I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.”
Bob Dylan
“I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.”
Bob Dylan
“I think I have a dualistic nature.”
Bob Dylan
“I'm mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it's the only place where I'm happy.”
Bob Dylan
“I'm not a playwright.”
Bob Dylan
“I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.”
Bob Dylan
“I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul.”
Bob Dylan
“I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation.”
Bob Dylan
“I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.”
Bob Dylan
“Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.”
Bob Dylan