Bob Dylan Quotes

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly ...

People talk about egos as if it were objects.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions th...

A poem is a naked person....Some people say that I am a poet.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God...

I never took much, I never asked for your crutch, Now don't ask for mine.

Yes, and only if my own true love was waiting If I could hear his heart softly pounding Yes, and onl...

Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid

why be bothered with other people's set-ups? it only leads to torture.

Ah, but I was so much older thenI’m younger than that now

Thinking of a series of dreamsWhere the time and the tempo flyAnd there's no exit in any direction'C...

I can see God in a daisy. I can see God at night in the wind and rain. I see Creation just about eve...

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does wha...

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never list...

...we are singing today of the WIPE-OUT GANG - the WIPE-OUT GANG buys, owns & operates the Insanity ...

I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

Beauty walks a razors edge, someday I'll make it mine.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be...

The dominant myth of the day seemed to be that anybody could do anything, even go to the moon. You c...

Inside the museums, | Infinity goes up on trial | Voices echo this is what salvation must be like af...

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.

I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

Come writers and criticsWho prophesize with your penAnd keep your eyes wideThe chance won't come aga...

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man?

Play it fuckin' loud!

All I can be is me- whoever that is.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vac...

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

There is nothing so stable as change.

Yes 'n' how many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free? Yes. 'n' how many t...

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they thro...

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

If you're looking to get silly, you better go back to from where you came. because the cops don't ne...

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedo...

Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it's available. When ...

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and ther...

Once upon a time You dressed so fine

When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.

Privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

Be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want." -Bob Dylan's Dad

I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disa...

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game.

People tell me it's a sinTo know and feel too much within

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about ...

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in betwee...

The future for me is already a thing of the past -You were my first love and you will be my last

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at ...

There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.

Come senators, congressmenPlease heed the callDon't stand in the doorwayDon't block up the hallFor h...

I was always fishing for something on the radio. Just like trains and bells, it was part of the soun...

DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture y...

Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that...

..my father was the best man in the world and probably worth a hundred of me, but he didn't understa...

New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody woul...

I had no songs in my repertoire for commercial radio anyway. Songs about debauched bootleggers, moth...

songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide in...

The line it is drawnThe curse it is castThe slow one nowWill later be fastAs the present nowWill lat...

Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you d...

It seemed I'd always been chasing after something, anything that moved -a car, a bird, a blowing lea...

I wasn't going to go deeper into the darkness for anybody. I was already living in the darkness. My ...

What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening - all bunk. No guar...

When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in fu...

I had no time for romance. I turned away from the window, from the wintry sun, crossed through the r...

She's got everything she needs; she's an artist, she don't look back.

reality has too many heads

My grandfather was a duck trapperHe could do it with just dragnets and ropesMy grandmother could sew...

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours

look, you know i don't wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, jus...

Let me ask you one questionIs your money that goodWill it buy you forgivenessDo you think that it co...

I’m happy to just be able to come across things. I don’t need to be happy. Happiness is a kind of ch...

Yet there’s no one to beat you | No one t’ defeat you | ’Cept the thoughts of yourself feeling bad

And if you don’t underestimate me, I won’t underestimate you.

No martyr is among ye now | Whom you can call your own | So go on your way accordingly | But know yo...

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind th...

If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mea...

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief...

It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry

People are crazy and times are strange,I'm locked in tightI'm out of range,I use to carebut things h...

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going...

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for ce...

It's not easy to define poetry.

You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're go...

People are crazy and times are strangeI'm locked in tight, I'm out of rangeI used to care, but thing...

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't pos...

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed aroun...

But, like Shakespeare, I too am often occupied with the pursuit of my creative endeavors and dealing...

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.