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Folk music16 quotes
For the loser now will be later to win,
For the times they are a-changin'. — Bob Dylan · 1964Come mothers and fathers,
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand. — Bob Dylan · 1964How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
A complete unknown
Like a rolling stone? — Bob Dylan · 1965The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'. — Bob Dylan · 1965How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?...
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind. — Bob Dylan · 1963This land is your land, this land is my land
From California to the New York Island,
From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters;
This land was made for you and me. — Woody Guthrie · 1945All 16 quotes →Protest music5 quotes
For the loser now will be later to win,
For the times they are a-changin'. — Bob Dylan · 1964Come mothers and fathers,
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand. — Bob Dylan · 1964The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'. — Bob Dylan · 1965Come Senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall. — Bob Dylan · 1963We will all go together when we go,
All suffused with an incandescent glow. — Tom Lehrer · 1959Folk rock2 quotes
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
A complete unknown
Like a rolling stone? — Bob Dylan · 1965Does any one know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours? — Gordon Lightfoot · 1976Pop music1 quote
A dragon lives forever,
But not so, little boys
Painted wings and giants' rings
Make way for other toys. — Peter, Paul and Mary · 1963