| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 18160 |
| QUOTATION: | Something is happening here
But you don’t know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones? |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941), U.S. singer, songwriter. Ballad of a Thin Man (song), on the album Highway 61 Revisited (1968).
The identity of Mr. Jones has been a source of some perplexity: several people thought the song was addressed to them. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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