BOB QUOTES —FINAL

John Robert’s 139 Bob Dylan quotes appear on QUARA.  They are listed below.  The next list is my effort to match his  quotes with songs the quotes come from.   I could not find  four.  

Some years back I did a similar project.  Dylan Quotes Test One is a matching test  with selected quotes to be matched with the correct song titles,  Answers are next (Don’ peek ! ) 

Dylan Quotes Test 2 is similar with quotes and songs from “Old Dylan”, several from the Robert’s collection. and some “New Bob Dylan“ quotes.

JOHN ROBERT’S DYLAN QUOTES

I am a huge Bob Dylan fan. I have a file on my computer were I collect quotes from Dylan.

I do not claim to understand all of them, but find them compelling. (John Roberts)

So here they are :

1. Advertising signs, Con you into thinking you’re the one, That can do what’s never been done.
2. Ain’t it just like the night to play tricks, When you’re trying to be so quiet.
3. All my powers of expression and thoughts so sublime, Could never do you justice in reason or rhyme
4. And it’s that ol’ sign on the cross, That worries me
5. And there’s no use in tryin’, T’ deal with the dyin’, though I cannot explain that in lines.
6. Anger and jealousy’s all that he sells us
7. Are you so fast that you cannot see, that I must have solitude? When I am in the darkness, why do you intrude?
8. As easy it was to tell black from white, It was all that easy to tell wrong from right.
9. As he weeps to wicked birds of prey, Who pick up on his bread crumb sins
10. At dawn my lover comes to me, And tells me of her dreams, With no attempts to shovel the glimpse, Into the ditch of what each one means
11. At one time there was nothing wrong with me that you couldn’t fix
12. Bankers’ nieces seek perfection, Expecting all the gifts that wise men bring.
13. Beggar man, beggar man, tell me no lie, is it a mystery that we live or a mystery that we die.
14. Betrayed by a kiss, on a cool night of bliss, In the valley of the missing link
15. Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth, None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.”
16. But Eden is burning, either brace yourself for elimination, Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards
17. But I can’t think for you, You’ll have to decide, Whether Judas Iscariot, Had God on his side.
18. But I feel nothing for their game, Where beauty goes unrecognized.
19. But it grieves my heart, love, to see you tryin’ to be a part of, a world that just don’t exist.
20. But the enemy I see, Wears a cloak of decency.
21. But to remain as friends and make amends, You need the time and stay behind.
22. Come on, give it to me, I’ll keep it with mine.
23. Don’t think of me and fantasize on what we never had, Be grateful for what we’ve shared together and be glad
24. Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.
25. Even Jesus would never, Forgive what you do.
26. Everything I am saying, you could say just as good
27. Follow her down past the fountain where they lifted her veil
28. For every enemy I faced, The cause was there before we met, And for every cause I fought, I fought it full without regret or shame.
29. For years they had me locked in a cage, Then they threw me onto the stage
30. Funny, the things you have the hardest time parting with, are the things you need the least.
31. Gentlemen, he said, I don’t need your organization, I’ve shined your shoes, I’ve moved your mountains and marked your cards
32. He who is not busy being born, Is busy dying.
33. Heart of mine go back home, You got no reason to wander, you got no reason to roam
34. Horseplay and disease is killing me by degrees
35. How can today make up for yesterday
36. Hunger pays a heavy price, To the falling gods of speed and steel.
37. I asked for salvation, But they gave me a lethal dose.
38. I can’t help it if I’m lucky.
39. I can’t remember what it was, That I came here to forget.
40. I couldn’t tell her what my private thoughts were, But she had a way of finding them out.
41. I count the years and I shed no tears, I’m blinded to what might have been
42. I dreamed I saw St. Augustine, Alive with fiery breath, And I dreamed I was amongst the ones, That put him out to death.
43. I fought with my twin, that enemy within, ‘Tel both of us fell by the way.
44. I got a cravin’ love for blazin’ speed, I got a hopped up Mustang Ford, Jump into the wagon, love, Throw your panties overboard
45. I got lost on the river, but I did not drown
46. I know the reason, That you talk behind my back, I use to be among the crowd, You’re in with.
47. I laugh and I cry and I’m haunted by, Things I never meant nor wished to say
48. I love you dear, but how much longer can I keep singing this same old song.
49. I once loved a woman, a child I’m told, I give her my heart but she wanted my soul
50. I practice a faith that’s been long abandoned, Ain’t no altars on this long and lonesome road
51. I think we better talk this over, Maybe when we both get sober
52. I walk across the bridge in the dismal light, Where all the cars are stripped between the gates of night
53. I was born here and I’ll die here, against my will
54. I was so much older then, I’m younger then that now
55. I went to sleep in Shreveport, woke up in Abilene and couldn’t figure out why I was wanted in a town half way in between
56. I wish for one moment you could stand in my shoes. And for that one moment I could be you. Then you could see what a drag it is to see you.
57. I’m not there, I gone
58. If there is an original thought out there, I could use it right now.
59. If you don’t believe there’s a price for this sweet paradise, Remind me to show you the scars.
60. If you get close to her, kiss her once for me, I always have respected her for busting out and gettin’ free
61. I’m going to spare the defeated, I’m going to speak to the crowd. I’m going to teach peace to the conquered, I’m going to tame the proud
62. I’m lost in the haze, of your delicate ways.
63. I’m not the one you want, babe, I’m not the one you need
64. I’m singin’ love’s praises with sugar coated rhyme
65. I’m the oldest son of a crazy man
66. I’m too stubborn to be governed.
67. I’m trying to love my neighbor and do good unto others, But oh, mother, things ain’t going well
68. In fourteenth months I only smiled once, but I didn’t do it concisely
69. In Jersey everything is legal as long as you don’t get caught
70. In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, Read books, repeat quotations, Draw conclusion on the wall.
71. It ain’t no use a-talking to me, It’s just the same as talking to you.
72. It’s getting harder and harder to be me.
73. It’s you and you only, I’m been thinking about, But you can’t see in and it’s hard lookin’ out
74. I’ve been conjuring up all these long dead souls from their crumblin’ tombs
75. Just when you thought you have lost everything, You find out there is more to lose
76. Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
77. Lost time cannot be found
78. Lot of things can get in the way, when you’re tryin’ to do what’s right
79. May you have a strong foundation, When the winds of changes shift
80. Meet me at the bottom, don’t lag behind, Bring me my boots and shoes. You can hang back or fight your best on the front line
81. More frailer than the flowers, these precious hours, That keep us so tightly bound
82. My bewildering brain, toils in vain
83. My clothes are wet, tight on my skin. Not as tight as the corner that I painted myself in
84. My hands are sweating, And we haven’t even started yet
85. My mind weaves a symphony and tapestry of rhyme
86. Myself, for what I did, I cannot be excused, The changes I was going through can’t even be used,
87. No, I do not feel that good, When I see the heart breaks you embrace.
88. Now you’re standing there expectin’ me, To remember somethin’ you forgot.
89. Now, I’ve always been the kind of a person that doesn’t like to trespass, But sometimes you just find yourself over the line.
90. One too many morning, and a thousand miles behind
91. Only one thing I did wrong, Stayed in Mississippi a day too long
92. Patriotism is the last refuse of a scoundrel
93. Please see for me if her hair hangs long, If it rolls and flows all down her breast. Please see for me if her hair hangs long, That’s the way I remember her best.
94. Renegade priests and treacherous young witches
95. Señor, señor, do you know where we’re headin’?
    Lincoln County Road or Armageddon?
96. She may know what you need, But I know what you want.
97. Since every pleasure’s got an edge of pain. Pay for your ticket and don’t complain
98. Some things are too terrible to be true
99. Some young lazy slut has charmed away my brain
100. 100.Something is happening here, But you don’t know what it is, Do you Mister Jones.
101. 101.Stake my future on a hell of a past
102. 102.Standing next to me in this lonely crowd, Is a man who swears he’s not to blame. All day long I hear him shout so load, Crying out that he was framed.
103. 103.Stick with me baby, stick with me anyhow, Things should start to get interestin’ right about now
104. 104.Still I wish there was somethin’ you would do or say, To try and make me change my mind and stay
105. 105.Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections, Then people who are most content.
106. Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt
107. Take me for a trip on your magic swirling ship.
108. Tell me where it hurts and ,I’ll tell you who to call
109. That god you have been paying to is going to give to you exactly what you have been wishing on someone else
110. The answer my friend, Is blowin’ in the wind.
111. The empty rooms where her memory is protected, Where the angels’ voices whisper to the souls of previous times.
112. The louder they come, the harder they fall
113. The only thing we knew for sure about Henry Porter, Is that his name wasn’t Henry Porter.
114. The pump don’t work, ‘Cause the vandals took the handle.
115. The truth was obscure, too profound and too pure
116. The vagabond at the door, Is wearing clothes you once wore.
117. There are many among us who feel, That life is but a joke.
118. They have some hungry women there, And man, they will make a mess out of you.
119. They tell me that revenge is sweet, And from where they stand, I’m sure it is.
120. They’ll be no mercy for you once you’ve lost
121. This woman so crazy, I swear I ain’t going to touch another one for years
122. Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail, The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder
123. Too much of nothing, Can drive a man insane.
124. Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift
125. We kissed through the wild blazing night time
126. Well, I’m preaching peace and harmony, The blessing of tranquility, Yet I know when the time is right to strike
127. When you ain’t got nothing, You’ve got nothing to lose.
128. Y’ always got to be prepared, but you never know for what
129. Yet there’s no one to beat you, No one to defeat you, Except the thoughts of yourself feeling bad.
130. You always said people don’t do what they believe in, They just do what’s most convenient, then they repent.
131. You can’t get to glory by the raising and the lowering of no flag
132. You don’t have to be afraid of looking into my face, We’ve done nothing to each other time will not erase
133. You don’t need a weather man, To know which way the wind blows.
134. You gonna need my help, sweetheart’ You can’t make love all by yourself
135. You know, I feel pretty good, But that ain’t sayin’ much.
136. You might think me odd, If I tell you that I love you, Not for what you are, but for what you’re not.
137. You were right from your side, and I was right from mineYou will search, babe, At any cost, But how long, Can you search for what is not lost.
138. Your conscience betrayed you when some tyrant waylaid you.

MATCHING JOHN ROBERT’S QUOTES WITH SONG TITLES

1. It’s All Right Ma                                                      26 One Too Many Mornings             

2. Visions of Johanna                                               27 Changing Of The Guard

3. When The deal goes Down                                  28 Restless Farewell

4. Sign on The Cross                                                29 Dreamin’ of You

5. To Ramona                                                             30. Lonesome Day Blues 

6. No Time To Talk                                                    31 Changing of The Guard

7. Is Your Love In Vain                                               32 It’s All Right Maw

8. Bob Dylan’s Dream                                               33 Heart of Mine

9. Gates Of Eden                                                        34 Journey Through the Dark Heat

10 Gates Of Eden                                                       35 Golden Tom-Silver Judas

11 Seeing The Real You at Last                                 36 Dark Eyes

12 Love  Minus Zero                                                 37. Shelter From the Storm

13 A Spanish Mary                                                     38 Idiot Wind

14 No Time To Think                                                  39 I Forgot to Remember to FORGET

15 All Along The Watchtower                                     40 Where Are You Tonight

16 Gates Of Eden                                                       41 Huck’s Tune

17 With God On Our Side                                          42 I Dreamed I saw St. Augustine

18 Dark Eyes                                                              43 Journey Through the Dark Heat

19 To Ramona                                                              44 High Water

20 Slow Train Coming                                                45 Lost On The River

21 Restless Farewell                                                  46 Positively Fourth Street

22 I’ll Keep It With Mine                                             47 When The Deal Goes Down

23 We Better Talk This Over                                     48 Kansas City 

24 The Times Are a Changing                                    49 Don’t Think Twice                       

25 Masters Of War                                                     50 World Gone Wrong

51. We Better Talk This Over                                     76. Lay Lady Lay                                           

52. Chimes of Freedom                                              77. Silvio

53. Not Dark Yet                                                         78.

54. My Back Pages                                                    79. Forever Young     

55. Wanted Man                                                         80. Workin’ Man Blues

56. Positively Fourth Street                                        81. Where Teardrops Fall

57. I’m Not there                                                         82. When The Deal Goes Down

58. Brownsville Girl                                                     83. Mississippi

59. Where Are You Tonight                                        84. Tight Connection To My Heart

60. Girl From The North country                                85. If Dogs Run Free

61. Silvio                                                                     86. Ballad in Plain D

62. We Better Talk  This Over                                   87. Positively 4th Street

63. It Ain’t Me Babe                                                    88. What Was It You Wanted

64. Sugar Baby                                                           89. New Danville Girl

65. Nettie Moore                                                         90. One Too Many Mornings

66. Up To Me                                                              91. Mississippi

67. Ain’t Talkin’                                                           92. What’s A sweetheart Like You.

68. Up To Me                                                              93. Girl From The North country

69. Hurricane                                                              94. Changing of the Guard

70. She Belongs To Me                                              95. Senior

71. I Shall Be Free                                                      96. She Belongs to Me

72. Cold Irons Bound                                                 97. Silvio

73.                                                                               98. Hones With Me

74. Rollin’ & Tumblin’                                                 99. Rollin’ & Tumblin’

75. Like A Rolling Stone                                             100 Ballad of a Thin Man

101 Silvio                                                                                121 Rollin’ & Thunderin’

102 Tear of Rage                                                                    122 Chimes of Freedom

103 Mississippi                                                                       123 Too Much of Nothin’

104 Don’t Think Twice                                                           124 Subterranean Homesick Blues

105 Brownsville Girl                                                               125 Chimes of Freedom

106 No Time to Talk                                                               126 Ain’t Talkin’

107 Mr. Tambourine Man                                                       127 Like A Rollin’ Stone

108 Quinn The Eskimo                                                           128 Sugar Baby

109                                                                                          129 Sugar Baby

110 Blowin’ In The Wind                                                        130 Brownsville Girl

111 Changing of the Guard                                                    131 Ain’t No Righteous Man

112 Million Dollar Bash                                                          132.

113 Brownsville Girl                                                               133 Subterranean  Homesick Blues

114 Subterranean Homesick Blues                                       134 What’s a Sweetheart Like You

115 Where Are You Tonight                                                   135 Brownsville Girl

116 Like A Rolling Stone                                                        136 If Not For You

117 All Along The Watchtower                                               137 Don’t Think Twice

118 Tom Thumb’s Blues                                                        138 I’ll Keep It With Mine

119 Dark Eyes                                                                        139 No Time to Think

120 Ain’t Talkin’

DYLAN QUOTES TEST #1

(MATCH QUOTATIONS WITH SONG TITLES)

QUOTES

1._____”If God is on our side, He’ll stop the next war.

2._____”And his brain has been mismanaged with great skill.

3._____”All right—where do you want this killing done?”

4._____”Is your money that good? Will it buy forgiveness? Do you think that it could?

5._____”Things are breaking up out there, high water everywhere.

6._____”Let’s disconnect the cables overturn the tables. This place just don’t make         sense to me no more.  Can you tell me what we are waiting for, Senor?”

7_____”May you have a strong foundation when the winds of changes shift.”

8_____”But you and I have been through that, and this is not our fate so let us not talk falsely the hour is getting late.”

9_____”I gaze into the doorway of temptations angry flames. And every time  I pass that way I always hear my name.”

10. ___”Happiness is just a state of mind.  Anytime you wish you can cross the state line.”

11_____”Before the sky there are no fences facing”

12_____”Something is happening here, but you don’t know what it is”

13_____”Ah, but I was so much older then I’m younger than that now”

14_____” strike another match, go start anew.”

15____”You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows”

16____”For he gets hurt will be he who has stalled”

17___”But to live outside the law, you must be honest”

18____”And I’ll tell  it, and think it, and speak it and breathe it”

19_____”But it’s not that way, I wasn’t born to loose you.”

20_____”Kick your shoes off, do not fear, bring that bottle over here.”

21____”I’d just be curious to know if you can see yourself as clear as someone who has had you on his mind”

22_____”Goodbye is too good a word girl”

23_____”So many roads, so much at steak, so many dead ends, sometimes I wonder what it’s  going to take to find dignity”

24______”It’s only other peoples games you got to dodge”

25____”Just remember when you are out there trying to heal the sick, that you must first forgive them.”

26_____”You’d know what a drag it is to see you.

27_____”You went to the finest school all right Miss Lonely. But you only used to get juiced in it”

28_____”I got sidetracked in El Paso, stopped to get myself a map, went the wrong way into Juarez with Juanita on my lap. Then I went to sleep in Shreveport, woke up in Abilene wondering why the hell I’m wanted at some town halfway between.”

29____”Bury the rag deep in  your face, for now is the time for your tears”

30_____”That long black cloud is coming down. “

DYLAN QUOTES TEST #1

(THE SONG TITLES)

A.  Wanted Man

B. My Back Pages

C. Masters of War

D.  Dignity

E. I Want You

F. License To Kill

G.  Waiting for You

H. Forever Young

I. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

J. Subterranean Homesick Blues

K. Momma You Been On My Mind

L. With God On Our Side

M.  Absolutely Sweet Marie

N.  Don’t Think Twice

O. Like A Rolling Stone

P.  I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight

Q.  High Water

R. Open the Door, Homer

S. Senor

T.  Positively 4th Street

U.  All Along The Watchtower

V. It’s All Right Ma

W. Hattie Caroll

X. The Times They Are A Changin’

Y. Mr. Tambourine Man

Z. Highway 61

*. Every Grain of Sand

**. It’s all Over Now Baby Blue

***. Hard Rain

****. Ballad of A Thin Man

DYLAN QUOTES TEST # ! (ANSWERS)

1.  L

2. F

3. Z

4. C

5. Q

6. S

7. H

8. U

9. *

10. G

11. Y

12. ****

13. B

14 **

15. J

16. X

17. M

18  ***

19. E

20. P

21. K

22.N

23. D

24. V

25. R

26. T

27.  O

28.  A

29.  W

30.  I  

DYLAN QUOTES TEST #2

——“May you have a strong foundation when the winds of changes shift.” 

—- “Time is an ocean but it ends at the shore.” 

——But you will wind up peeking through her keyhole down upon your knees.

——- Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth, None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.”

—But I can’t think for you, You’ll have to decide, Whether Judas Iscariot, Had God on his side.

—- But the enemy I see, Wears a cloak of decency.

 —-Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.—-Funny, the things you have the hardest time parting with, are the things you need the least.

 —-He who is not busy being born, Is busy dying.

—-I asked for salvation, But they gave me a lethal dose.

  —-I got a cravin’ love for blazin’ speed, I got a hopped up Mustang Ford, Jump into the wagon, love, Throw your panties overboard.

 —-I laugh and I cry and I’m haunted by, Things I never meant nor wished to say.

—-I think we better talk this over, Maybe when we both get sober.

 —-I was so much older then, I’m younger then that now.

 —-I ‘m trying to love my neighbor and do good unto others, But oh, mother, things ain’t going well.

—-In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, Read books, repeat quotations, Draw conclusion on the wall.

—- Lot of things can get in the way, when you’re tryin’ to do what’s right.

—-.—-Patriotism is the last refuse of a scoundrel.

—- Three miles north of purgatory – one step from the great beyond

I prayed to the cross and I kissed the girls and I crossed the Rubicon.

  —-You won’t amount to much the people all said

‘Cause I didn’t play guitar behind my head

Never pandered never acted proud

Never took off my shoes and threw them into the crowd

Goodbye Jimmy Reed – goodbye and goodnight

I’ll put a jewel in your crown – I’ll put out the light.

  —-Sometimes the silence can be like the thunder

Sometimes I wanna take to the road and plunder

  —-They tell me everything is gonna be all right

But I don’t know what “all right” even means.

 —- The storms are raging on the rolling sea

And on the highway of regret

The winds of change are blowing wild and free

You ain’t seen nothing like me yet.

  ——Maybe somewhere down the road a ways (at the end of the line)

You’ll think of me and wonder where I am these days (at the end of the line)

Maybe somewhere down the road when somebody plays (at the end of the line)

Purple Haze.

—- I  loved  you then, and ever shall,

but there’s no one here who is left to tell. 

The world has turned black before my eyes

—-Happiness is just a state of mind.  Any time you wish you can cross the state line

1. TO MAKE YOU FEEL MY LOVE

 2.  NETTIE MOORE

3.  WAITIN’ FOR YOU

 4.   RUBICON

5.  FOREVER YOUNG 

6.  TRYING TO GET TO HEAVEN

 7.  IT’S ALRIGHT MA

 8.  WHEN THE DEAL GOES DOWN

9.  END OF THE LINE

 10.   OH SISTER     

11.   LONESOME DAY BLUES  

12.  HONEST WITH ME

13.  AIN’T TALKIN’

 14.  SLOW TRAIN COMING

 15.   HIGHWATER

 16.   MY BACK PAGES

17.   LOVE MINUS ZERO

 18.  LOVE SICK

19.  THE TIMES ARE CHANGING

20.   SWEETHEART LIKE YOU

 21.  GOODBY JIMMY REED.  

  22.  ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER

23.  WITH GOD ON OUR SIDE

  24.  SHELTER FROM THE STORM

25. WAITIN FOR YOU

26.  MAYBE WE  BETTER TALK THIS OVER

ANSWERS TO DYLAN TEST 2 (no peeking )

1.  TO MAKE ME FEEL YOUR LOVE (23)

 2.  NETTIE MOORE ( 25)

3.   WAITING FOR YOU (26)

 4.   RUBICON (19) 

5.  FOREVER YOUNG  ( 1)

6.  TRYING TO GET TO HEAVEN (22)

 7.  IT’S ALRIGHT MA (9)

 8.  WHEN THE DEAL GOES DOWN ( 12)

9.  END OF THE LINE (24)

 10.   OH SISTER    (2)  

11.   LONESOME DAY BLUES  

12.  HONEST WITH ME

13.  AIN’T TALKIN’ (13)

 14.  SLOW TRAIN COMING

 15.   HIGHWATER (15)

 16.   MY BACK PAGES (16)

17.   LOVE MINUS ZERO

 18.  LOVE SICK

19.  THE TIMES ARE CHANGING

20.   SWEETHEART LIKE YOU

 21.  GOODBY JIMMY REED.  (  20 )

  22.  ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER (4)

23.  WITH GOD ON OUR SIDE (23)

  24.  SHELTER FROM THE STORM

25.  WAITING FOR YOU

26.  MAYBE WE  BETTER TALK THIS OVER

ANSWERS TO DYLAN TEST 2 (no peeking )

1.  TO MAKE ME FEEL YOUR LOVE (23)

 2.  NETTIE MOORE ( 25)

3.   WAITING FOR YOU (26)

 4.   RUBICON (19) 

5.  FOREVER YOUNG  ( 1)

6.  TRYING TO GET TO HEAVEN (22)

 7.  IT’S ALRIGHT MA (9)

 8.  WHEN THE DEAL GOES DOWN ( 12)

9.  END OF THE LINE (24)

 10.   OH SISTER    (2)  

11.   LONESOME DAY BLUES  

12.  HONEST WITH ME

13.  AIN’T TALKIN’ (13)

 14.  SLOW TRAIN COMING

 15.   HIGHWATER (15)

 16.   MY BACK PAGES (16)

17.   LOVE MINUS ZERO

 18.  LOVE SICK

19.  THE TIMES ARE CHANGING

20.   SWEETHEART LIKE YOU

 21.  GOODBY JIMMY REED.  (  20 )

  22.  ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER (4)

23.  WITH GOD ON OUR SIDE (23)

  24.  SHELTER FROM THE STORM

25.  WAITING FOR YOU

26.  MAYBE WE  BETTER TALK THIS OVER (13)

BOB DYLAN QUOTES  

BOB QUOTES —FINAL

John Roberts’ 139 Bob Dylan quotes appear on QUARA.

They are listed below.  The next list is my effort to match Bob quotes

with the songs the quotes come from.  I could not find four.

Some  years back I did a similar project.  Quotes Test 1  is a 

matching test with selected quotes to be matched with correct 

song titles.  Answers are next (Don’t peek ).

Dylan Quotes Test 2, is similar with quotes and songs from

“Old Bob Dylan”, several from the Roberts’ collection, and 

some “New Bob Dylan  quotes.

John Roberts

I have been addicted to music from the age of 10.

What are some of the best quotes from Bob Dylan?

I am a huge Bob Dylan fan. I have a file on my computer were I collect quotes from Dylan.

I do not claim to understand all of them, but find them compelling.

So here they are :

1. Advertising signs, Con you into thinking you’re the one, That can do what’s never been done.
2. Ain’t it just like the night to play tricks, When you’re trying to be so quite.
3. All my powers of expression and thoughts so sublime, Could never do you justice in reason or rhyme
4. And it’s that ol’ sign on the cross, That worries me
5. And there’s no use in tryin’, T’ deal with the dyin’, though I cannot explain that in lines.
6. Anger and jealousy’s all that he sells us
7. Are you so fast that you cannot see, that I must have solitude? When I am in the darkness, why do you intrude?
8. As easy it was to tell black from white, It was all that easy to tell wrong from right.
9. As he weeps to wicked birds of prey, Who pick up on his bread crumb sins
10. At dawn my lover comes to me, And tells me of her dreams, With no attempts to shovel the glimpse, Into the ditch of what each one means
11. At one time there was nothing wrong with me that you couldn’t fix
12. Bankers’ nieces seek perfection, Expecting all the gifts that wise men bring.
13. Beggar man, beggar man, tell me no lie, is it a mystery that we live or a mystery that we die.
14. Betrayed by a kiss, on a cool night of bliss, In the valley of the missing link
15. Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth, None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.”
16. But Eden is burning, either brace yourself for elimination, Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards
17. But I can’t think for you, You’ll have to decide, Whether Judas Iscariot, Had God on his side.
18. But I feel nothing for their game, Where beauty goes unrecognized.
19. But it grieves my heart, love, to see you tryin’ to be a part of, a world that just don’t exist.
20. But the enemy I see, Wears a cloak of decency.
21. But to remain as friends and make amends, You need the time and stay behind.
22. Come on, give it to me, I’ll keep it with mine.
23. Don’t think of me and fantasize on what we never had, Be grateful for what we’ve shared together and be glad
24. Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.
25. Even Jesus would never, Forgive what you do.
26. Everything I am saying, you could say just as good
27. Follow her down past the fountain where they lifted her veil
28. For every enemy I faced, The cause was there before we met, And for every cause I fought, I fought it full without regret or shame.
29. For years they had me locked in a cage, Then they threw me onto the stage
30. Funny, the things you have the hardest time parting with, are the things you need the least.
31. Gentlemen, he said, I don’t need your organization, I’ve shined your shoes, I’ve moved your mountains and marked your cards
32. He who is not busy being born, Is busy dying.
33. Heart of mine go back home, You got no reason to wander, you got no reason to roam
34. Horseplay and disease is killing me by degrees
35. How can today make up for yesterday
36. Hunger pays a heavy price, To the falling gods of speed and steel.
37. I asked for salvation, But they gave me a lethal dose.
38. I can’t help it if I’m lucky.
39. I can’t remember what it was, That I came here to forget.
40. I couldn’t tell her what my private thoughts were, But she had a way of finding them out.
41. I count the years and I shed no tears, I’m blinded to what might have been
42. I dreamed I saw St. Augustine, Alive with fiery breath, And I dreamed I was amongst the ones, That put him out to death.
43. I fought with my twin, that enemy within, ‘Tel both of us fell by the way.
44. I got a cravin’ love for blazin’ speed, I got a hopped up Mustang Ford, Jump into the wagon, love, Throw your panties overboard
45. I got lost on the river, but I did not drown
46. I know the reason, That you talk behind my back, I use to be among the crowd, You’re in with.
47. I laugh and I cry and I’m haunted by, Things I never meant nor wished to say
48. I love you dear, but how much longer can I keep singing this same old song.
49. I once loved a woman, a child I’m told, I give her my heart but she wanted my soul
50. I practice a faith that’s been long abandoned, Ain’t no altars on this long and lonesome road
51. I think we better talk this over, Maybe when we both get sober
52. I walk across the bridge in the dismal light, Where all the cars are stripped between the gates of night
53. I was born here and I’ll die here, against my will
54. I was so much older then, I’m younger then that now
55. I went to sleep in Shreveport, woke up in Abilene and couldn’t figure out why I was wanted in a town half way in between
56. I wish for one moment you could stand in my shoes. And for that one moment I could be you. Then you could see what a drag it is to see you.
57. I’m not there, I gone
58. If there is an original thought out there, I could use it right now.
59. If you don’t believe there’s a price for this sweet paradise, Remind me to show you the scars.
60. If you get close to her, kiss her once for me, I always have respected her for busting out and gettin’ free
61. I’m going to spare the defeated, I’m going to speak to the crowd. I’m going to teach peace to the conquered, I’m going to tame the proud
62. I’m lost in the haze, of your delicate ways.
63. I’m not the one you want, babe, I’m not the one you need
64. I’m singin’ love’s praises with sugar coated rhyme
65. I’m the oldest son of a crazy man
66. I’m too stubborn to be governed.
67. I’m trying to love my neighbor and do good unto others, But oh, mother, things ain’t going well
68. In fourteenth months I only smiled once, but I didn’t do it concisely
69. In Jersey everything is legal as long as you don’t get caught
70. In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, Read books, repeat quotations, Draw conclusion on the wall.
71. It ain’t no use a-talking to me, It’s just the same as talking to you.
72. It’s getting harder and harder to be me.
73. It’s you and you only, I’m been thinking about, But you can’t see in and it’s hard lookin’ out
74. I’ve been conjuring up all these long dead souls from their crumblin’ tombs
75. Just when you thought you have lost everything, You find out there is more to lose
76. Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
77. Lost time cannot be found
78. Lot of things can get in the way, when you’re tryin’ to do what’s right
79. May you have a strong foundation, When the winds of changes shift
80. Meet me at the bottom, don’t lag behind, Bring me my boots and shoes. You can hang back or fight your best on the front line
81. More frailer than the flowers, these precious hours, That keep us so tightly bound
82. My bewildering brain, toils in vain
83. My clothes are wet, tight on my skin. Not as tight as the corner that I painted myself in
84. My hands are sweating, And we haven’t even started yet
85. My mind weaves a symphony and tapestry of rhyme
86. Myself, for what I did, I cannot be excused, The changes I was going through can’t even be used,
87. No, I do not feel that good, When I see the heart breaks you embrace.
88. Now you’re standing there expectin’ me, To remember somethin’ you forgot.
89. Now, I’ve always been the kind of a person that doesn’t like to trespass, But sometimes you just find yourself over the line.
90. One too many morning, and a thousand miles behind
91. Only one thing I did wrong, Stayed in Mississippi a day too long
92. Patriotism is the last refuse of a scoundrel
93. Please see for me if her hair hangs long, If it rolls and flows all down her breast. Please see for me if her hair hangs long, That’s the way I remember her best.
94. Renegade priests and treacherous young witches
95. Señor, señor, do you know where we’re headin’?
    Lincoln County Road or Armageddon?
96. She may know what you need, But I know what you want.
97. Since every pleasure’s got an edge of pain. Pay for your ticket and don’t complain
98. Some things are too terrible to be true
99. Some young lazy slut has charmed away my brain
100. Something is happening here, But you don’t know what it is, Do you Mister Jones.
101. .Stake my future on a hell of a past
102. .Standing next to me in this lonely crowd, Is a man who swears he’s not to blame. All day long I hear him shout so load, Crying out that he was framed.
103. .Stick with me baby, stick with me anyhow, Things should start to get interestin’ right about now
104. .Still I wish there was somethin’ you would do or say, To try and make me change my mind and stay
105. .Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections, Then people who are most content.
106. .Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt
107. Take me for a trip on your magic swirling ship.
108. .Tell me where it hurts and ,I’ll tell you who to call
109. That god you have been paying to is going to give to you exactly what you have been wishing on someone else
110. The answer my friend, Is blowin’ in the wind.
111. .The empty rooms where her memory is protected, Where the angels’ voices whisper to the souls of previous times.
112. .The louder they come, the harder they fall
113. .The only thing we knew for sure about Henry Porter, Is that his name wasn’t Henry Porter.
114. The pump don’t work, ‘Cause the vandals took the handle.
115. The truth was obscure, too profound and too pure
116. The vagabond at the door, Is wearing clothes you once wore.
117. .There are many among us who feel, That life is but a joke.
118. They have some hungry women there, And man, they will make a mess out of you.
119. They tell me that revenge is sweet, And from where they stand, I’m sure it is.
120. They’ll be no mercy for you once you’ve lost
121. This woman so crazy, I swear I ain’t going to touch another one for years
122. .Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail, The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder
123. Too much of nothing, Can drive a man insane.
124. .Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift
125. .We kissed through the wild blazing night time
126. Well, I’m preaching peace and harmony, The blessing of tranquility, Yet I know when the time is right to strike
127. .When you ain’t got nothing, You’ve got nothing to lose.
128. Y’ always got to be prepared, but you never know for what
129. Yet there’s no one to beat you, No one to defeat you, Except the thoughts of yourself feeling bad.
130. You always said people don’t do what they believe in, They just do what’s most convenient, then they repent.
131. You can’t get to glory by the raising and the lowering of no flag
132. 132.You don’t have to be afraid of looking into my face, We’ve done nothing to each other time will not erase
133. You don’t need a weather man, To know which way the wind blows.
134. 134.You gonna need my help, sweetheart’ You can’t make love all by yourself
135. You know, I feel pretty good, But that ain’t sayin’ much.
136. You might think me odd, If I tell you that I love you, Not for what you are, but for what you’re not.
137. You were right from your side, and I was right from mine
138. You will search, babe, At any cost, But how long, Can you search for what is not lost.
139. Your conscience betrayed you when some tyrant waylaid you.

ANSWERS TO JOHN ROBERT’S  FAVORITE QUOTES

1. It’s All Right Ma                                                      26 One Too Many Mornings             

2. Visions of Johanna                                               27 Changing Of The Guard

3. When The deal goes Down                                  28 Restless Farewell

4. Sign on The Cross                                                29 Dreamin’ of You

5. To Ramona                                                             30. Lonesome Day Blues 

6. No Time To Talk                                                    31 Changing of The Guard

7. Is Your Love In Vain                                               32 It’s All Right Maw

8. Bob Dylan’s Dream                                               33 Heart of Mine

9. Gates Of Eden                                                        34 Journey Through the Dark Heat

10 Gates Of Eden                                                       35 Golden Tom-Silver Judas

11 Seeing The Real You at Last                                 36 Dark Eyes

12 Love  Minus Zero                                                 37. Shelter From the Storm

13 A Spanish Mary                                                     38 Idiot Wind

14 No Time To Think                                                  39 I Forgot to Remember to FORGET

15 All Along The Watchtower                                     40 Where Are You Tonight

16 Gates Of Eden                                                       41 Huck’s Tune

17 With God On Our Side                                          42 I Dreamed I saw St. Augustine

18 Dark Eyes                                                              43 Journey Through the Dark Heat

19 To Ramona                                                              44 High Water

20 Slow Train Coming                                                45 Lost On The River

21 Restless Farewell                                                  46 Positively Fourth Street

22 I’ll Keep It With Mine                                             47 When The Deal Goes Down

23 We Better Talk This Over                                     48 Kansas City 

24 The Times Are a Changing                                  49 Don’t Think Twice                       

25 Masters Of War                                                    50 World Gone Wrong

51. We Better Talk This Over                                     76. Lay Lady Lay                                           

52. Chimes of Freedom                                              77. Silvio

53. Not Dark Yet                                                         78.

54. My Back Pages                                                    79. Forever Young     

55. Wanted Man                                                         80. Workin’ Man Blues

56. Positively Fourth Street                                        81. Where Teardrops Fall

57. I’m Not there                                                         82. When The Deal Goes Down

58. Brownsville Girl                                                     83. Mississippi

59. Where Are You Tonight                                        84. Tight Connection To My Heart

60. Girl From The North country                                85. If Dogs Run Free

61. Silvio                                                                     86. Ballad in Plain D

62. We Better Talk  This Over                                   87. Positively 4th Street

63. It Ain’t Me Babe                                                    88. What Was It You Wanted

64. Sugar Baby                                                           89. New Danville Girl

65. Nettie Moore                                                         90. One Too Many Mornings

66. Up To Me                                                              91. Mississippi

67. Ain’t Talkin’                                                           92. What’s A sweetheart Like You.

68. Up To Me                                                              93. Girl From The North country

69. Hurricane                                                              94. Changing of the Guard

70. She Belongs To Me                                              95. Senior

71. I Shall Be Free                                                      96. She Belongs to Me

72. Cold Irons Bound                                                 97. Silvio

73.                                                                               98. Hones With Me

74. Rollin’ & Tumblin’                                                 99. Rollin’ & Tumblin’

75. Like A Rolling Stone                                             100 Ballad of a Thin Man

101 Silvio                                                                       121 Rollin’ & Thunderin’

102 Tear of Rage                                                          122 Chimes of Freedom

103 Mississippi                                                              123 Too Much of Nothin’

104 Don’t Think Twice                                                 124 Subterranean Homesick Blues

105 Brownsville Girl                                                      125 Chimes of Freedom

106 No Time to Talk                                                       126 Ain’t Talkin’

107 Mr. Tambourine Man                                                127 Like A Rollin’ Stone

108 Quinn The Eskimo                                                     128 Sugar Baby

109                                                                                      129 Sugar Baby

110 Blowin’ In The Wind                                                    130 Brownsville Girl

111 Changing of the Guard                                                131 Ain’t No Righteous Man

112 Million Dollar Bash                                                        132.

113 Brownsville Girl                                                             133 Subterranean  Homesick Blues

114 Subterranean Homesick Blues                                    134 What’s a Sweetheart Like You

115 Where Are You Tonight                                                 135 Brownsville Girl

116 Like A Rolling Stone                                                      136 If Not For You

117 All Along The Watchtower                                             137 Don’t Think Twice

118 Tom Thumb’s Blues                                                        138 I’ll Keep It With Mine

119 Dark Eyes                                                                        139 No Time to Think

DYLAN QUOTE TEST # 1

120 Ain’t Talkin’

MATCH QUOTATIONS WITH SONG TITLES

QUOTES

1._____”If God is on our side, He’ll stop the next war.

2._____”And his brain has been mismanaged with great skill.

3._____”All right—where do you want this killing done?”

4._____”Is your money that good? Will it buy forgiveness? Do you think that it could?

5._____”Things are breaking up out there, high water everywhere.

6._____”Let’s disconnect the cables overturn the tables. This place just don’t make         sense to me no more.  Can you tell me what we are waiting for, Senor?”

7_____”May you have a strong foundation when the winds of changes shift.”

8_____”But you and I have been through that, and this is not our fate so let us not talk falsely the hour is getting late.”

9_____”I gaze into the doorway of temptations angry flames. And every time  I pass that way I always hear my name.”

10. ___”Happiness is just a state of mind.  Anytime you wish you can cross the state line.”

11_____”Before the sky there are no fences facing”

12_____”Something is happening here, but you don’t know what it is”

13_____”Ah, but I was so much older then I’m younger than that now”

14_____” strike another match, go start anew.”

15____”You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows”

16____”For he gets hurt will be he who has stalled”

17___”But to live outside the law, you must be honest”

18____”And I’ll tell  it, and think it, and speak it and breathe it”

19_____”But it’s not that way, I wasn’t born to loose you.”

20_____”Kick your shoes off, do not fear, bring that bottle over here.”

21____”I’d just be curious to know if you can see yourself as clear as someone who has had you on his mind”

22_____”Goodbye is too good a word girl”

23_____”So many roads, so much at steak, so many dead ends, sometimes I wonder what it’s  going to take to find dignity”

24______”It’s only other peoples games you got to dodge”

25____”Just remember when you are out there trying to heal the sick, that you must first forgive them.”

26_____”You’d know what a drag it is to see you.

27_____”You went to the finest school all right Miss Lonely. But you only used to get juiced in it”

28_____”I got sidetracked in El Paso, stopped to get myself a map, went the wrong way into Juarez with Juanita on my lap. Then I went to sleep in Shreveport, woke up in Abilene wondering why the hell I’m wanted at some town halfway between.”

29____”Bury the rag deep in  your face, for now is the time for your tears”

30_____”That long black cloud is coming down. “

DYLAN TEST (TITLES #1)

THE SONG TITLES:

A.  Wanted Man

B. My Back Pages

C. Masters of War

D.  Dignity

E. I Want You

F. License To Kill

G.  Waiting for You

H. Forever Young

I. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

J. Subterranean Homesick Blues

K. Momma You Been On My Mind

L. With God On Our Side

M.  Absolutely Sweet Marie

N.  Don’t Think Twice

O. Like A Rolling Stone

P.  I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight

Q.  High Water

R. Open the Door, Homer

S. Senor

T.  Positively 4th Street

U.  All Along The Watchtower

V. It’s All Right Ma

W. Hattie Caroll

X. The Times They Are A Changin’

Y. Mr. Tambourine Man

Z. Highway 61

*. Every Grain of Sand

**. It’s all Over Now Baby Blue

***. Hard Rain

****. Ballad of A Thin Man

DYLAN QUOTES TEST # ! (ANSWERS)

1.  L

2. F

3. Z

4. C

5. Q

6. S

7. H

8. U

9. *

10. G

11. Y

12. ****

13. B

14 **

15. J

16. X

17. M

18  ***

19. E

20. P

21. K

22.N

23. D

24. V

25. R

26. T

27.  O

28.  A

29.  W

30.  I 

DYLAN TEST 2  (QUOTES TO BE MATCHED )

——“May you have a strong foundation when the winds of changes shift.” 

—- “Time is an ocean but it ends at the shore.” 

——Happiness is just a state of mind.  Any time you wish you can cross the state line.

——- Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth, None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.”

—But I can’t think for you, You’ll have to decide, Whether Judas Iscariot, Had God on his side.

—— Sometimes babies never learn.

 —-Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.—

 —-He who is not busy being born, Is busy dying.

—-I asked for salvation, But they gave me a lethal dose.

  —-I got a cravin’ love for blazin’ speed, I got a hopped up Mustang Ford, Jump into the wagon, love, Throw your panties overboard.

 —-I laugh and I cry and I’m haunted by, Things I never meant nor wished to say.

—-I think we better talk this over, Maybe when we both get sober.

 —-I was so much older then, I’m younger then that now.

 —-I ‘m trying to love my neighbor and do good unto others, But oh, mother, things ain’t going well.

—-In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, Read books, repeat quotations, Draw conclusion on the wall.

—- Lot of things can get in the way, when you’re tryin’ to do what’s right.

—-.—-Patriotism is the last refuse of a scoundrel.

—- Three miles north of purgatory – one step from the great beyond

I prayed to the cross and I kissed the girls and I crossed the Rubicon.

  —-You won’t amount to much the people all said

‘Cause I didn’t play guitar behind my head

Never pandered never acted proud

Never took off my shoes and threw them into the crowd

Goodbye Jimmy Reed – goodbye and goodnight

I’ll put a jewel in your crown – I’ll put out the light.

  —-Sometimes the silence can be like the thunder

Sometimes I wanna take to the road and plunder

  —-They tell me everything is gonna be all right

But I don’t know what “all right” even means.

 —- The storms are raging on the rolling sea

And on the highway of regret

The winds of change are blowing wild and free

You ain’t seen nothing like me yet.

  ——Maybe somewhere down the road a ways (at the end of the line)

You’ll think of me and wonder where I am these days (at the end of the line)

Maybe somewhere down the road when somebody plays (at the end of the line)

Purple Haze.

—- I  loved  you then, and ever shall,

but there’s no one here who is left to tell. 

The world has turned black before my eyes

DYLAN TEST 2—SONG TITLES

—-Happiness is just a state of mind.  Any time you wish you can cross the state line.

——I don’t cheat on myself.  I don’t run and hide.

Hide from the feelings that are buried inside.

1. TO MAKE YOU FEEL MY LOVE

 2.  NETTIE MOORE

3.  WAITIN’ FOR YOU

 4.   RUBICON

5.  FOREVER YOUNG 

6.  TRYING TO GET TO HEAVEN

 7.  IT’S ALRIGHT MA

 8.  WHEN THE DEAL GOES DOWN

9.  END OF THE LINE

 10.   OH SISTER 

11. BROWNSVILLE GILRL

12.   MAN IN THE LONG BLACK COAT  

13.  AIN’T TALKIN’

14   WHERE TEARDROPS FALL

 15.   HIGHWATER

 16.   MY BACK PAGES

17.   LOVE MINUS ZERO

 18.  LOVE SICK

19.  THE TIMES ARE CHANGING

20.   SWEETHEART LIKE YOU

 21.  GOODBY JIMMY REED.  

  22.  ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER

23.  WITH GOD ON OUR SIDE

24.  MOST OF THE TIME

25.   MAYBE WE  BETTER TALK THIS OVER

DYLAN TEST 2 (answers)

5——“May you have a strong foundation when the winds of changes shift.” 

10—- “Time is an ocean but it ends at the shore.” 

25——Happiness is just a state of mind.  Any time you wish you can cross the state line.

22——- Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth, None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.”

23—But I can’t think for you, You’ll have to decide, Whether Judas Iscariot, Had God on his side.

11—— Sometimes babies never learn.

19 —-Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.—-Funny, the things you have the hardest time parting with, are the things you need the least.

 7—-He who is not busy being born, Is busy dying.

14—-Roses are red and violets are blue, time is beginning to crawl,

I  may have to come see you, where teardrops fall.

 15 —-I got a cravin’ love for blazin’ speed, I got a hopped up Mustang Ford, Jump into the wagon, love, Throw your panties overboard.

8—-I laugh and I cry and I’m haunted by, Things I never meant nor wished to say.

26—-I think we better talk this over, Maybe when we both get sober.

 16—-I was so much older then, I’m younger then that now.

 13—-I ‘m trying to love my neighbor and do good unto others, But oh, mother, things ain’t going well.

17—-In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, Read books, repeat quotations, Draw conclusion on the wall.

12——She never said nothing, there was nothing she wrote.

She’d gone with the man in the long black coat

.20—-Patriotism is the last refuse of a scoundrel.

4—- Three miles north of purgatory – one step from the great beyond

I prayed to the cross and I kissed the girls and I crossed the Rubicon.

  21—-You won’t amount to much the people all said

‘Cause I didn’t play guitar behind my head

Never pandered never acted proud

Never took off my shoes and threw them into the crowd

Goodbye Jimmy Reed – goodbye and goodnight

I’ll put a jewel in your crown – I’ll put out the light.

  18—-Sometimes the silence can be like the thunder

Sometimes I wanna take to the road and plunder

  6—-They tell me everything is gonna be all right

But I don’t know what “all right” even means.

 1—- The storms are raging on the rolling sea

And on the highway of regret

The winds of change are blowing wild and free

You ain’t seen nothing like me yet.

  9——Maybe somewhere down the road a ways (at the end of the line)

You’ll think of me and wonder where I am these days (at the end of the line)

Maybe somewhere down the road when somebody plays (at the end of the line)

Purple Haze.

2—- I  loved  you then, and ever shall,

but there’s no one here who is left to tell. 

The world has turned black before my eyes

—-

Where Ma Rainey and Beethoven once unwrapped their bed roll
Tuba players now rehearse around the flagpole
And the National Bank at a profit sells road maps for the soul
To the old folks home and the college FROM “TOMBSTONE BLUES” by Bob Dylan.

TOMBSTONE BLUES WAS ON ALBUM–HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED. 1965, He wrote it when he was 25 years old.

DYLAN QUOTES TEST (ANSWERS)

1. L

 

2. F

 

3. Z

 

4. C

 

5. Q

 

6. S

 

7. H

 

8. U

 

9. *

 

10. G

 

11. Y

 

12. ****

 

13. B

 

14 **

 

15. J

 

16. X

 

17. M

 

18 ***

 

19. E

 

20. P

 

21. K

 

 

22.N

 

23. D

 

24. V

 

25. R

 

26. T

 

27. O

 

28. A

 

29. W

 

30. I

 

THE SONG TITLES:

A.  Wanted Man

B. My Back Pages

C. Masters of War

D.  Dignity

E. I Want You

F. License To Kill

G.  Waiting for You

H. Forever Young

I. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

J. Subterranean Homesick Blues

K. Momma You Been On My Mind

L. With God On Our Side

M.  Absolutely Sweet Marie

N.  Don’t Think Twice

O. Like A Rolling Stone

P.  I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight

Q.  High Water

R. Open the Door, Homer

S. Senor

T.  Positively 4th Street

U.  All Along The Watchtower

V. It’s All Right Ma

W. Hattie Caroll

X. The Times They Are A Changin’

Y. Mr. Tambourine Man

Z. Highway 61

*. Every Grain of Sand

**. It’s all Over Now Baby Blue

***. Hard Rain

****. Ballad of A Thin Man

Next stop 80.  Makes one think.  Bob turns 79 this month.  Bob doesn’t “sequester” well.  Wonder how he is handling “stay at home”.

Given this time to ponder our greatest life time tragedy, something will be forthcoming.  Happened with Katrina, JFK, 9/11, –quite  a few significant others.

It’s not dark yet   Help us out Bob.

Here are some of my “Bob Lists”
A. My top 80 Dylan songs.
(He’s written who knows how many, but its upwards of 1000.
1. Like a Rolling Stone
2. Mr. Tambourine Man
3. All Thing the Watchtower
4. Forever Young
5. Every Grain of Sand
6. Blowin’ in the Wind
7. Things have Changed
8. Lay, Lady, Lay
9. Tangled up in Blue
10. With God on Our Side
11. The Times are a Changing
12. Subterranean Homesick Blues
13. Its All Over Now, Baby Blue
14. Desolation Row
15. Tombstone Blues
16. It’s Alright Ma
17. Ballad of a Thin Man
18. Gate of Eden
19. Masters of War
20. Visions of Johanna
21. Dignity
22. Tight Connection to My Heart
23. She Belongs to Me
24. Love Minus Zero/No limit
25. Lonesome Death of Hattie Carol
26. Hard Rain
27. Not Dark Yet
28. To Make You Feel My Love
29. Only a Pawn
30. John Brown
31. High Water (for Charlie Patton)
32. Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee
33. Hollis Brown
34. Chimes of Freedom
35. Where Teardrops Fall
36. Man in the Long Black Coat
37. Angelina
38. Farewell Angelina
39. I’ll Remember you
40. Knockin’ on Heavens Doors
41. Mama, You been on my mind
42. I’ll be your Baby Tonight
43. Queen Jane Approximately
44. Hurricane
45. Isis
46. Brownsville Girl
47. One More Cup of Coffee
48. Absolutely Sweet Marie
49. Blind Willie McTell
50. Buckets of Rain
51. IWantYou
52. Let it Be Me
53. Oh sister
54. PoliticalWorld
55. Highway 61
56. Going, Going, Gone
57. Open the Door Homer
58. Love is Just a 4 Letter Word
59. Just Like Tom Thumb Blues
60. Sad Eyed Lady
61. Sign on the Window
62. I Forgot More
63. Restless Farwell
64. Cold Irons Bound
65. Not Dark Yet
66. Don’t think Twice
67. Jokerman
68. Man of Peace
69. Mississippi
70. Positively 4th St.
71. Shelter from the Storm
72. Shooting Star
73. Trying to Get To Heaven
74. Wheels on Fire
75. Tweeter & Monkey Man
76. To Ramona
77. Nettie Moore
78. Someday Baby
79. When The Deal Goes Down
80. The Mystic Garden
B. Suggested Songs on War.
(These are just as valid today as in 1965)
1. With God On Our Side
2. Blowin’ in the Wind
3. Senor
4. High Water (For Charlie Patton)
5. It’s Alright Ma
6. Masters of War
7. John Brown
8. Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
9. All Along The Watchtower
C. Favorite Quotes
War:
“If God is on our side, he’ll stop the next war.” (With God on our Side)
“And his brain has been mismanaged with great skill.” (License to Kill)
“Alright – where do you want this killing done?” (Highway 61)
“Is your money that good? Will it buy forgiveness? Do you think that it could?” (Masters of War)
“Things are breaking up out there, High water everywhere!” (High Water)
“Let’s disconnect the cables, over turn the tables. The place just don’t make sense
to me nor more.” (Senor)
“And I’ll tell it, and think it, and speak it and breath it.” (Hard Rain)
Faith:
“They say prayer has the power to heal so pray for me mother. In the human heart an evil spirit can dwell. I am tryin’ to love my neighbor and do good unto others. But oh, mother, things ain’t going well.” (Ain’t Talkin”)
“May you have a strong foundation when the winds of changes shift.” (Forever Young)“There are no keys inside the gates of Eden.” (Gates of Eden)
“But you and I have been through that, and this is not our fate, so let us not talk
falsely the hour’s getting late.” (All Along the Watchtower)
I gaze into the doorway of temptation’s angry flames. And every time I pass that
way I always hear my name.” (Every Grain of Sand)
“But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through dust no
matter how thick.” (Restless Farewell)
“Strap yourself to a tree with roots – you ain’t going nowhere.” “Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle
and the sea are you only teachers.” (Jokerman)
“Before the sky there are no fences —“ (Mr. Tambourine Man) “The dust of rumor covers me.” (Restless Farewell)
Change:
“Something is happening here, but you don’t know what it is.” (Ballad of a Thin Man)
“Ah but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.” (My Back Pages)
“It’ll soon shake you windows and rattle your walls.” (Times They are a Changin’)
“Strike another match, go start anew.” (Baby Blue)
“Well its always been my nature to take chances. My right hand draws back as my left hand advances.” (Angelina)
“steal a little & they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and they make you a king.” (What’s a Girl Like You)
“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. (Subterranean Homesick Blues)
“For he who gets hurt will be he who has stalled.” (Times They are a Changin’) “But me, I’m still on the road heading for another joint.” (Tangled Up In Blue) “The only thing I knew to do was to keep on keeping on.” (Brownsville Girl) “But to live outside the law, you must be honest.” (Absolutely Sweet Marie) “You can’t open your mind to every conceivable point of view.” (High Water) “He not busy being born is not being dying.” (It’s Alright Ma)Relationships:
“Bad luck women will stick like glue. Its one or the other or neither of the two.” (Nettie Moore)
“Love is all there is, it makes the world go ‘round, love and only love, it can’t be denied. No matter what you think about it you just won’t be able to do without it. Take a tip from one who’s tried.” (I Threw it All Away)
“But its not that way, I wasn’t born to lose you.” (I Want You)
“Kick your shoes off, do not fear, buy that bottle over here. (I’ll be your Baby To- night) “I ain’t lookin’ to block you up, shock or knock or lock you up, analyze you, categorize you, finalize you or advertise you. All I really want to do is, baby, be friends with you.” (All I Really Want to Do)
“I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail, poisoned in the bushes an’ blown out on the trail, hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn. ‘Come in,’ she said, ‘I’ll give you shelter from the storm’.” (Shelter from the Storm)
“I’d just be curious to know if you can see yourself as clear as someone who has had you on his mind?” (Momma You’ve Been On My Mind)
“Goodbye is too good a word girl.” (Don’t Think Twice)
“If your mem’ry serves you well, you’ll remember you’re the one that called on me
to call on them to get you your favors done.” (This Wheel’s on Fire)
“So many roads, so much at stake, so many dead ends, sometimes I wonder what
its going to take to find Dignity.”
“Its only other people’s games you’ve got to dodge.” (It’s All Right Ma)
“You’re right from your side, and I’m right from mine.” (One Too Many Mornings)
“Now, there’s a certain thing that I learned from my friend, Moss. A fella who always blushes and that is that ev’ryone must always flush out his house if he don’t expect to be housing flushes.”
“When you’re out there trying to heal the sick, remember you must first forgive them.” (Open the Door, Homer)
“Friends will arrive, Friends will disappear!” (Buckets of Rain) “You’d know what a drag it is to see you.” (Positively 4th Street)
“You went to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely. But you know you only used to get juiced in it.” (Like a Rolling Stone)
“”As she takes your voice and leaves you howling at the moon.” (Tom Thumbs Blues)
“Time is in ocean but it ends at the shore.” (Oh Sister) Tough Moments:
“I’ve just reached a place where true willow don’t bend.” (Going, Going, Gone) “Blues this morning fallin’ down like hail – Gonna leave a greasy trail.” (Nettie
Moore)
“I got sidetracked in El Paso, stopped to get myself a map, went the wrong way into Juarez with Juanita on my lap. Then I went to sleep in Shreveport, woke up in Abilene wonderin’ why the hell I’m wanted at some town halfway between.” (Wanted Man)
“Bury the rag deep in your face, for now is the time for your tears.” (Hattie Carol) “Like a cork screw to my heart.” (Big Girl)
“That long black cloud is coming down.” (Knockin’ at Heaven’s Doors)
“You can always come back, but you can’t come back all the way.” (Mississippi) “don’t even hear the murmur of a prayer.” (Not Dark Yet)
“When you think you’ve lost everything, you find out you can always lose a little more.” (Tryin’ to get to Heaven)
“As soon as you awake, you trained to take, what looks like the only way out.” (Political World)
“Conceit is a disease doctors got no cure.” (Disease of Conceit)

As recently as September 5, or three days ago, Bob Dylan has repeated his recent tour set lists with very little variety. This marks a major change from a history of choices from the one thousand or more songs he has cryptically chosen from show to show. There has even been a betting line on what the set lists would include. It is fully understandable that having to cope with all the lyrics, magnificent as they are, has caused this change. Any answers?

Maybe my music teaching Mom gave me an “appreciation gene” if not a drop of talent.
I noticed the new Pope thinks Bob Dylan is a “false prophet.” I don’t remem- ber Bob claiming deity. I asked “Country” who he thought the new Pope would be? “Probably be another Catholic,” he reassured.
People tell me “I can’t understand what Dylan is saying” or “I don’t get it.” Maybe you get him or you don’t.
I know during rehab from several surgeries I read his lyrics book closely. An
updated one goes through 2002.
If you’re interested in this wealth of work read the lyrics along with the music.
I’m a Dylan fan, not a “Dylanologist.” Over 5000 courses are taught in Dylan
throughout academia.
Two Dylan poems hold up with the “greats”: (1) Forever Young and (2) Every
Grain of Sand. Read number one for your children, number two for your faith. If these don’t affect you, read no further in this chapter. (Pages 181-182)
Ray Charles once suggested, “ you may not like all I play, but hang on, I’ll find you.”