"A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness."

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Source : "Bob Dylan: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

Bob Dylan

#Self Quotes #People Quotes #This Life Quotes

“Repetition is sometimes the best way to deal with the Luideag: just keep saying the same thing over and over until she gets fed up and gives you what you want. All preschoolers have an instinctive grasp of this concept, but most donâ€™t practice it on immortal water demons. Thatâ€™s probably why there are so few disembowelments in your average preschool.”
“Many jazz musicians affect a misunderstood-genius air when they play, which alienates the audience and breaks down the communications of the music. A musician's responsibility is to get as much of his art across as possible. Musicians used to be kept when only the rich could afford art, but now practically everyone can afford radios, stereo equipment, concert tickets, etc. A musician must learn to communicate to survive.”
“Tell me about our legal issues. And use small words. I don't like to think at this hour of the morning. It hurts." ~Leo to Merripen”
“I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.”
“[A God-thing is] when something happens in your life, and you look at it and can't explain how or why it happened, but you know there's a reason for it. You know that God is doing something in your life, and it changes you. There's no other way to explain it except to see it as a God thing.”

Source : Robin Jones Gunn (2009). “Christy Miller Collection”, p.197, Multnomah
“I don't know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching - 'cause we are not going to win any popularity contests.”
“Stay up and listen to lightening. If there is no lightening around, stay up and listen to nothing. Just listen to the sheer joy of your thoughts trans-versing from one corner of your brain to the next.”
“I received an award for 25 million in [album] sales the night before the bus accident [in 1990].”

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