Tao Te Ching
Bringing it all Back Home
By Bob Dylan
Widely considered at least one of the greatest albums in rock history, Bringing It All Back Home was Dylan's first album to make the US and UK top 10 charts, had the first single track to make it at #39, and regularly posts on lists like Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (#31) and 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die. The album marks Dylan's transition from folk to rock, from acoustic to electric, and from working with Joan Baez to going it more alone. It was also during this time that he met the Beatles and introduced them to marijuana precipitating a clear directional change for both.
Quotes from Bringing it all Back Home
“I try my best to be just like I am but everybody wants you to be just like them... I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more”
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“Advertising signs that con you
Into thinking you're the one
That can do what's never been done
That can win what's never been won
Meantime, life outside goes on
All around you”
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“But I mean no harm, nor put fault on anyone that lives in a vault. But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him.”
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72. Helpful Fear
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“He hands you a nickel, he hands you a dime, he asks you with a grin if you're havin' a good time... I ain't gonna work for Maggie's brother no more”
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“Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you. Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you... Strike another match, go start anew.”
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“Take me for a trip upon your magic swirlin' ship
All my senses have been stripped
And my hands can't feel to grip
And my toes too numb to step
Wait only for my boot heels to be wanderin'
I'm ready to go anywhere I'm ready for to fade
On to my own parade”
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“There’s no success like failure, and failure’s no success at all.”
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2. The Wordless Teachings
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“[Bringing It All Back Home was] the most influential album of its era. Almost everything to come in contemporary popular song can be found therein.”
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“By fusing the Chuck Berry beat of the Rolling Stones and the Beatles with the leftist, folk tradition of the folk revival, Dylan really had brought it back home, creating a new kind of rock & roll [...] that made every type of artistic tradition available to rock.”
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“Thursday I was one person, and Friday I was another. [After listening to Bringing it all Back Home]”
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“Of all the songs about Sixties self-consciousness and generation-bound identity, none forecasts the lost innocence of an entire generation better [than Bringing It All Back Home]”
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