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Quotes by Bob Dylan

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
– 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
A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
– Bob Dylan
A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
– Bob Dylan
All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
– Bob Dylan
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
– Bob Dylan
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
– Bob Dylan
Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
– Bob Dylan
At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.
– Bob Dylan
Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
– Bob Dylan
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
– Bob Dylan
Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.
– Bob Dylan
Blame it on a simple twist of fate.
– Bob Dylan
But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.
– Bob Dylan
Chaos is a friend of mine.
– Bob Dylan
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
He not busy being born is busy dying.
– Bob Dylan
I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
– Bob Dylan
I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
– Bob Dylan
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
– Bob Dylan
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
I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.
– Bob Dylan
I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
– Bob Dylan
I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.
– Bob Dylan
I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.
– Bob Dylan
I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
– Bob Dylan
I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon.
– Bob Dylan
I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation.
– Bob Dylan
I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.
– Bob Dylan
I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.
– Bob Dylan
If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
– Bob Dylan
In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.
– Bob Dylan
In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
– Bob Dylan
It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people.
– Bob Dylan
Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I've never thought about that before! He said, When you're not following me, you're resisting me.
– Bob Dylan
Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
– Bob Dylan
Money doesn't talk, it swears.
– Bob Dylan
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
– Bob Dylan
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
She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.
– Bob Dylan
Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
– Bob Dylan
The radio makes hideous sounds.
– Bob Dylan
There is nothing so stable as change.
– Bob Dylan
Well, I don't know, but I've been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!
– Bob Dylan
Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.
– Bob Dylan
What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.
– Bob Dylan
When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?
– Bob Dylan
Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
– Bob Dylan
You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows. Don't follow leaders watch the parkin' meters.
– Bob Dylan
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
– Bob Dylan
If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through the dust no matter how thick.
– Bob Dylan
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
When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.
– Bob Dylan
You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent God, the all-great God, the Almighty God, the most powerful God, the giver of life God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.
– Bob Dylan
You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.
– Bob Dylan
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
The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.
– Bob Dylan
My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.
– Bob Dylan
Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.
– Bob Dylan
It's not easy to define poetry.
– Bob Dylan
I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul.
– Bob Dylan
I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.
– Bob Dylan
I think I have a dualistic nature.
– Bob Dylan
I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.
– Bob Dylan
I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.
– Bob Dylan
I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.
– Bob Dylan
I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.
– Bob Dylan
I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
– Bob Dylan
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
Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.
– Bob Dylan
Folk music is a bunch of fat people.
– Bob Dylan
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
Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.
– Bob Dylan