You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody.Collection: Devil
How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.Collection: Travel
I'm not a playwright. The people in my songs are all me.Collection: Playwright
Down the street the dogs are barking And the day is getting dark. As the night comes in a-falling, The dogs´ll lose their bark And the silent night will shatter From the sounds inside my mind, For I´m one to many mornings And a thousand miles behind. From the crossroads of my doorstep, My eyes they start to fade, As I turn my head back to the room Where my love and I have laid.Collection: Song
So now I'm going back again I got to get her somehow All the people we used to know They're an illusion to me now Some are mathematicians Some are carpenter's wives Don't know how it all got started I don't what they're doing with their lives But me I'm still on the road Heading for another joint We always did feel the same We just saw it from a different point of view Tangled up in Blue.Collection: Blue
Pain sure does bring out the best in people, doesn't it?Collection: Pain
Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane.Collection: Ideas
In harmony with cosmic sea, true love needs no company. It can cure the soul, it can make it whole, if dogs run free.Collection: Love
My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands.Collection: Song
I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door.Collection: Death
Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us, he's content when you're under his thumb. Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him, to survive it you play deaf and dumb.Collection: Art
Mama, put my guns in the ground, I can't shoot them anymore. That long black cloud is coming down.Collection: Family
They're selling postcards of the hanging.Collection: Order
I can't see my reflection in the waters, I can't speak the sounds that show no pain. I can't hear the echo of my footsteps, or can't remember the sound of my own name.Collection: Pain
The walls of pride are high and wide, can't see over to the other side.Collection: Wall
Satan will give you a little taste, then he'll move in with rapid speed.Collection: Moving
You use to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat, who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat.Collection: Horse
Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.Collection: Forget
You walk into the room like a camel and then put your eyes in your pockets and your nose on the ground.Collection: Eye
A cork screw to my heart, ever since we've been apart.Collection: Heart
The National Bank at profit sells road maps for the soul.Collection: Soul
Ain't no use jiving, ain't no use joking, everything is broken.Collection: Reality
How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?Collection: Men
I was down in the sewer with some little lover.Collection: Dating
Too much of nothing can turn a man into a liar. It can cause one man to sleep on nails and another to eat fire.Collection: Liars
For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.Collection: Life
How many times must a man look up, before he can see the sky?Collection: Hate
It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cryCollection: Laughing
She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all.Collection: Speak Softly
Morality has nothing in common with politics.Collection: Morality
All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives.Collection: People
Oh, the inmates and the prisoners I found they were my kind And it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind But the jails they were too crowded Institutions overflowed So they turned me loose to walk upon Life's hurried tangled roadCollection: Jail
God bless them pretty women, I wish they was mine, Their breath is as sweet, The dew on the vine.Collection: Sweet
You can have your youth It'll rot before your eyesCollection: Eye
Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.Collection: Enemy
You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you.Collection: Art
Sing your praise of progress and the doom machine, the naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen.Collection: Progress
Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.Collection: Law
Wiggle 'til you're high, wiggle 'til you're higher, wiggle 'til you vomit fire.Collection: Fire
People tell me it's a sin, to know and feel too much within.Collection: Education
Rumble is the best instrumental ever.Collection: Guitar
I am a restless soul hungry perhaps wretched.Collection: Soul
I've never gone for having a great voice, for cultivating one. I'm still not doing it now.Collection: Voice
Art is a never-ending dance of illusions.Collection: Art
I just wanted a song to sing, and there came a point where I couldn't sing anything...nobo dy else was writing what I wanted to sing. I couldn't find it anywhere. If I could I probably would never have started writing.Collection: Song
The ghosts race towards the light, you can almost hear the heavy breathing spirits, all determined to get somewhere. New Orleans, unlike a lot of places you go back to and that don't have the magic anymore, still has got it. Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. You can't see it, but you know it's here. Somebody's always sinking.Collection: Night
My songs are personal music, they're not communal. I wouldn't want people singing along with me. It would sound funny. I'm not playing campfire meetings. I don't remember anyone singing along with Elvis, Carl Perkins or Little Richard.Collection: Song