Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.
Meaning of the quote
Just because you enjoy my music or other work, that doesn't mean I have to give you anything else. I'm not obligated to do more for you just because you're a fan. I create my art for myself, not to repay anyone who likes it.
About Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter who rose to prominence in the 1960s and is considered one of the greatest songwriters in history. His influential rock albums and politically charged lyrics made him a major figure in popular culture, while he has continued to evolve and reinvent himself over his 60-year career.
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A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
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Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.
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This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
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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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There is nothing so stable as change.
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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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I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
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In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
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In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.
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I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.
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I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.
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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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A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
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What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.
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If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
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At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
He not busy being born is busy dying.
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
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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Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
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Being on tour is like being in limbo. It’s like going from nowhere to nowhere.
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
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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A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
Chaos is a friend of mine.
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I have dined with kings, I’ve been offered wings. And I’ve never been too impressed.
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A song is anything that can walk by itself.
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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
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I think a poet is anybody who wouldn’t call himself a poet.
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No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
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Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.
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The radio makes hideous sounds.
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I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.
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I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.
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Money doesn’t talk, it swears.
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When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?
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A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a poet.
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Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.
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Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.
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I’m speaking for all of us. I’m the spokesman for a generation.
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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.
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To live outside the law, you must be honest.
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You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
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I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)