Newly announced Noble Prize winner Bob Dylan's fans have pored over his lyrics for more than 50 years and few artists in rock history have seen so many of their songs covered by other musicians, including Jeff Buckley, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Wonder, Johnny Cash, Adele and even Nathan Carter - yes, he wrote the chorus to Wagon Wheel.
Here are some of the greatest lines from the first musician to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, 'for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition':
From Positively 4th Street:
Yes, I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
You'd know what a drag it is to see you
From Visions Of Johanna:
Inside the museums, Infinity goes up on trial
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
But Mona Lisa must've had the highway blues
You can tell by the way she smiles
From Masters Of War:
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your mask
From The Times They Are A-Changin':
Come writers and critics
Who prophesise with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
From: Like A Rolling Stone:
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hanging out
Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't seem so proud
About having to be scrounging for your next meal
It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding):
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
Hurricane:
Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties
Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise
While Rubin sits like Buddha in a 10-foot cell
An innocent man in a living hell
That's the story of the Hurricane
But it won't be over till they clear his name
And give him back the time he's done
Put him in a prison cell but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world.
Just Like A Woman:
With her fog, her amphetamine and her pearls
She takes just like a woman, yes
She makes love just like a woman, yes, she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl
From The Man In The Long Black Coat:
Every man's conscience is vile and depraved
You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it's you who must keep it satisfied
From Maggie's Farm:
I try my best/To be just like I am
But everybody wants you/To be just like them
They sing while you slave/And I just get bored
