Bob Dylan Quotes
"Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything."
- Bob Dylan
"In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: People, Books, Quotations, Talk)
"In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge."
- Bob Dylan
"If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Answers)
"I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Song, Songs, World)
"I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation."
- Bob Dylan
"No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Birds, Sky)
"I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Dreams)
"There is nothing so stable as change."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Change, Nothing)
"I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet."
- Bob Dylan
"A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Freedom, Responsibility)
"People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: People)
"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Music, People, Ideas, Being, Living, Today)
"I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Words)
"The radio makes hideous sounds."
- Bob Dylan
"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Freedom, Responsibility)
"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Music, Land, World)
"To live outside the law, you must be honest."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Law)
"Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Future, Past)
"What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Applause, Fans, Sleep)
"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Success, Money, Bed, Man, Night)
"When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?"
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Blame, Will)
"Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Memory, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Experience, Past)
"Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Care, Memories)
"All I can do is be me, whoever that is."
- Bob Dylan
"A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: People)
"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Success, Bed, Man, Night)
"A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Mistake)
"A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Success, Bed, Night)
"I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Thought, Feeling)
"A song is anything that can walk by itself."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Song)
"I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Love, America, Will)
"All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Truth, Lie, World)
"All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Equality, People, Talk)
"At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Life)
"Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Order)
"Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Being, Burden)
"I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Kings)
"But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: President, states, United)
"Chaos is a friend of mine."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Friend, Chaos)
"Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: People, Fact, Old)
"Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Democracy, Violence, World)
"Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Money, People)
"He not busy being born is busy dying."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Being, Dying)
"I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Chaos)
"I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Nature, Dreams)
"I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: First)
"I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Beauty, Patriotism, Nothing, Rules)
"I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Change, Future, Mind, Past, Thinking)
"Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Being)
"A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: People)