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

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I can't stand Bob Dylan.
CHARLOTTE CHURCH
I think people are 'just creative,' and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan...
RONNIE WOOD
If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
BOB DYLAN
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bo...
JAMES ALTUCHER
I timed my previous wife's pregnancy to the moment to have my son born on Bob Dylan's 50th b...
CHARLIE TROTTER
I love Bob Dylan. Who doesn't? He tapped into some kind of vein and it keeps on keeping on. Ther...
DAVID LYNCH
My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anythi...
ALEX TREBEK
If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into t...
DANIEL DENNETT
We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people ar...
ALBERT ELLIS
Many self-help books give you these neat, tidy formulas that are really illusions. They dupe people ...
JOHN BRADSHAW
I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stoppin...
HAROLD PRINCE
The particular aspect of time that I'm interested in is the arrow of time: the fact that the pas...
SEAN M. CARROLL
I'm not that kind of Bob Dylan, tortured creative.
BEN BARNES
When I'm writing, I can always play around with tense. I can always make past present. I can alw...
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS
I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us: you don't write the songs anyhow. So if y...
LEONARD COHEN
Personally, I don't think it is acceptable to manipulate the human germline for the purpose of c...
EMMANUELLE CHARPENTIER
We didn't have the phrase 'style icon' when I was young, but I have to say, I really cop...
PATTI SMITH
...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in w...
ECKHART TOLLE
I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to...
HENRY ROLLINS
You can't think 'Dole' without thinking 'Bob Dole' and cartoons and third-person...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS
You listen to Bob Dylan and you can't help but think of the 60s, it's very relational and if...
SERJ TANKIAN
Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for...
R. A. SALVATORE
I tell you one thing that makes me feel I haven't wasted my life, and that is I've got some ...
HELEN GARNER
I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Ta...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU
The past or past events and the future or future events, ONLY EXIST IN THE MIND. They are not real o...
JACK TYME
You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons fro...
ALAN ALDA
Don't live in the past. There's no point. You can't change anything. What a waste of tim...
BOB NEWHART
I don't think you can ease yourself into theater. I just thrust myself into it.
LATANYA RICHARDSON
I actually don't mind rats at all. I kind of think they're quite cute, but that's just m...
JAMIE BELL
I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. B...
VANILLA ICE
You can't change the past. You can only change the future.
AMANDA GRACE
No use thinking of the past for its gone, don't think of the future because it has to come, think of...
KAZI SHAMS
We don't need another Woody. Even Bob Dylan knew he couldn't be Woody Guthrie... I like Wood...
BUZZ OSBORNE
Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to ...
DAVE EGGERS
Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can c...
NIGELLA LAWSON
Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't...
ECKHART TOLLE
You can't change who you are, but you can change what you have in your head, you can refresh wha...
ERNESTO BERTARELLI
I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are tellin...
DAVID TANG
People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understan...
NORMAN MAILER
I don't think you can run around and crash and bang quite the way that I might have done in the ...
ERIC LINDROS
The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA
The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell ...
ED SHEERAN
You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only chan...
LARRY WALL
You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illi...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
T.S. ELIOT
No, I wouldn't direct a movie, no. I couldn't. I don't have the patience for it, I don&#...
NICK CAVE
I don't sit here and dream because I don't care about the future. I wouldn't take nothin...
BROWNIE MCGHEE
I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.
YANCY BUTLER
To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gu...
ZIG ZIGLAR
I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that...
ELON MUSK
All I can do is be me, whatever that is. Bob Dylan
ALM HLGH
I don't think you can say something is or isn't magic. That's what was cool about Houdin...
DAVID BLAINE
There are different ways to be confused about how someone's disappointed you. Some lie about the fut...
LAURA DAVE
A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who un...
DAN GILROY
I don't like the NFL, where I think it's a problem: some guy scores a touchdown, now he'...
D. B. SWEENEY
I can´t change my past, or predict my future. But i can shape my present.
ARMIN HOUMAN
I think that women really entwine with the people that they become close to in a way that men don...
GILLIAN FLYNN
I don't believe that directors need to essentially manipulate actors into doing things. You can ...
RUTH NEGGA
No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.
ROY T. BENNETT
No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future
UMAR IBN AL-KHATTAB
Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they cre...
CHELSEA CAIN
I don't care if it's a Cole Porter song, or George Gershwin, or Lennon/McCartney, or Elton J...
JOHN OATES
You can't judge the present by the past. Each day is different, and you live it differently.
MARTY RUBIN
I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like ...
GARY ALLAN
Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality,...
FRANK STELLA
But I think what Liam said just kind of hit it spot on, that the people in the capital are brainwash...
JOSH HUTCHERSON
I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite ...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY
Never say never, but I don't think I'll ever get Botox because we don't know the long-te...
KRISTIN CAVALLARI
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think....
ANTHONY HOPKINS
I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodnes...
DAVID MORRISSEY
Bob Arum and Don King can do their thing but if I fought for those guys and they put the money up li...
LARRY HOLMES
We cannot change the past. We can only take action in the present and, therefore, change the future.
KEN POIROT
No amount of regret can change the past. No amount of anxiety can change the future.
KAREN SALMANSOHN
I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand ou...
LUCY HAWKING
People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and fu...
GRETCHEN RUBIN
Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing.
DOUGRAY SCOTT
I don't think Estonians ever really hated Russians. It was more, 'Leave us alone.' We ca...
CARMEN KASS
There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, per...
DUSTIN HOFFMAN
We just can't change the rules if we don't like the results.
CANDICE S. MILLER
Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking.
LIANE MORIARTY
Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're ...
XAVIER DOLAN
You can always plan where you think your life is going to go but I don't think you can really pl...
JACK MCCOLLOUGH
I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I en...
NICOLAS CAGE
It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying abo...
ROY T. BENNETT
Dave Van Ronk, for those who don't know him - probably most don't know - was a folk singer. ...
ETHAN COEN
I think that Obama is very cool. And I think he's clever, and I think he can be witty. But I don...
MO ROCCA
I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan.
BRADLEY WHITFORD
But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wou...
BILLY BRAGG
The more i think about my past, the less i comprehend the present and the less i think about my past...
STEPHEN .R. ANYAEGBU
Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT
I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worr...
RYAN SHECKLER
I do think you can change the past and the present somehow. Even if something has already happened, ...
ELLEN GALLAGHER
The American people I talk to don't spend every moment thinking, 'How can I tax my neighbor ...
MITT ROMNEY
You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, b...
DORIS ROBERTS
I don't worry about the things I can't change.
FERRAN ADRIA
I'm an ensemble guy, I guess - that comes from the theater. If I ever won some kind of award som...
GARRET DILLAHUNT
I don't think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race. The only way for...
ROSA PARKS
I feel the less you project of yourself, the more you can be believable as a character. I also think...
EVELYNE BROCHU
I don't mind if the couple next to me is tense or the kids are whiny. I'd even be happy to h...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

More Bob Dylan

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
BOB DYLAN
A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
BOB DYLAN
It's hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.
BOB DYLAN
Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
BOB DYLAN
In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw ...
BOB DYLAN
Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by v...
BOB DYLAN
Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.
BOB DYLAN
I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.
BOB DYLAN
When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?
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 fo...
BOB DYLAN
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade ...
BOB DYLAN
I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
BOB DYLAN
There is nothing so stable as change.
BOB DYLAN
All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
BOB DYLAN
If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
BOB DYLAN
I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
BOB DYLAN
I had no songs in my repertoire for commercial radio anyway. Songs about debauched bootleggers, moth...
BOB DYLAN
Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
BOB DYLAN
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does wha...
BOB DYLAN
Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act.
BOB DYLAN
Money doesn't talk, it swears.
BOB DYLAN
I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly ...
BOB DYLAN
I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be j...
BOB DYLAN
She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century a...
BOB DYLAN
A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does wha...
BOB DYLAN
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past -- whatever experience gotten in any way what...
BOB DYLAN
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedo...
BOB DYLAN
Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napole...
BOB DYLAN
To live outside the law, you must be honest.
BOB DYLAN
Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
BOB DYLAN
Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and ther...
BOB DYLAN
In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.
BOB DYLAN
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
BOB DYLAN
But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.
BOB DYLAN
Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturb...
BOB DYLAN
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed aroun...
BOB DYLAN
I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, yo...
BOB DYLAN
Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
BOB DYLAN
For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.
BOB DYLAN
Democracy don't rule the world, you better get that in your head; this world is ruled by violence, b...
BOB DYLAN
Well, I don't know, but I've been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how thin...
BOB DYLAN
Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
BOB DYLAN
Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting y...
BOB DYLAN
The times they are a-changing.
BOB DYLAN
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
BOB DYLAN
How many roads must a man walk down Before your can call him a man? . . . The answer, my frien...
BOB DYLAN
Blame it on a simple twist of fate.
BOB DYLAN
Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's ...
BOB DYLAN
Chaos is a friend of mine.
BOB DYLAN
Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land, And don't criticize What you can't understand
BOB DYLAN
Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence,...
BOB DYLAN
He not busy being born is busy dying.
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 betwee...
BOB DYLAN
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all goin...
BOB DYLAN
Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Si...
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 betwee...
BOB DYLAN
Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!
BOB DYLAN
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed arou...
BOB DYLAN
Hey! Mr. Tamborine Man, play a song for me. I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
BOB DYLAN
Come you masters of warYou that build all the gunsYou that build the death planesYou that build the ...
BOB DYLAN
In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, Draw ...
BOB DYLAN
For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.
BOB DYLAN
I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior pow...
BOB DYLAN
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
BOB DYLAN
Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.
BOB DYLAN
I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
BOB DYLAN
It's not easy to define poetry.
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 be...
BOB DYLAN
A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.
BOB DYLAN
Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
BOB DYLAN
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disa...
BOB DYLAN
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
BOB DYLAN
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going...
BOB DYLAN
And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.
BOB DYLAN
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about ...
BOB DYLAN
You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, an...
BOB DYLAN
What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.
BOB DYLAN
You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of...
BOB DYLAN
You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God...
BOB DYLAN
I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul...
BOB DYLAN
Don't criticize what you can't understand.
BOB DYLAN
A poem is a naked person....Some people say that I am a poet.
BOB DYLAN
Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music....
BOB DYLAN
I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind th...
BOB DYLAN
I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul.
BOB DYLAN
I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the tr...
BOB DYLAN
I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours
BOB DYLAN
Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mea...
BOB DYLAN
The future for me is already a thing of the past -
You were my first love and you will be my la...
BOB DYLAN
I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believ...
BOB DYLAN
I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.
BOB DYLAN
Swallow your pride, you will not die, it's not poison.
BOB DYLAN
You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows.
BOB DYLAN
When you ain't got nothin', you got nothin' to lose.
BOB DYLAN
The picture you have in your mind of what you're about will come true.
BOB DYLAN
Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do.
BOB DYLAN
...You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
BOB DYLAN
When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't gi...
BOB DYLAN
Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.
BOB DYLAN
If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through the dust no matter how thick.
BOB DYLAN
He who is not busy being born is busy dying.
BOB DYLAN
I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.
BOB DYLAN
I was always fishing for something on the radio. Just like trains and bells, it was part of the soun...
BOB DYLAN
I never saw myself as a folk singer.
BOB DYLAN
I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
BOB DYLAN
Folk music is a bunch of fat people.
BOB DYLAN
Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them.
BOB DYLAN
This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never list...
BOB DYLAN
May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see t...
BOB DYLAN
He's written extraordinary songs, hasn't he? I consider him one of the preeminent songwriters of the...
BOB DYLAN
Look out, kid, it's sumpin' ya did, God knows when, but you're doin' it again
BOB DYLAN
How many times can a man turn his head and pretend he just doesn't see?
BOB DYLAN
Yes to dance beneath a diamond sky with one hand waving free, silhouetted by the sea, circled by the...
BOB DYLAN
I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. B...
BOB DYLAN
It fell from a 10 story building and exploded in front of me.
BOB DYLAN
I wish that for just one time / you could stand inside my shoes / and just for that one moment / I c...
BOB DYLAN
Johnny's in the basement, mixin' up the medicine...I'm on the pavement, thinkin' about the governmen...
BOB DYLAN
You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.
BOB DYLAN
Play it fuckin' loud!
BOB DYLAN
I kinda live where I find myself.
BOB DYLAN
I'm inconsistent, even to myself.
BOB DYLAN
Everybody is even making love or else expecting rain
BOB DYLAN
Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.
BOB DYLAN
The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in...
BOB DYLAN
People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book.
BOB DYLAN
I didn't come out of a cereal box.
BOB DYLAN
You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're go...
BOB DYLAN
Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.
BOB DYLAN
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now
BOB DYLAN
When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in fu...
BOB DYLAN
And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns... that I would have to st...
BOB DYLAN
If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will...
BOB DYLAN
He never knew my name, He never knew my name. And though I never met him, I knew him just the same, ...
BOB DYLAN
The radio makes hideous sounds.
BOB DYLAN
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at ...
BOB DYLAN
I had just returned to Woodstock from the Midwest - from my father's funeral. The previous week had ...
BOB DYLAN
I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now.

From the back pages
BOB DYLAN
How many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
Yes, 'n' how many ears must o...
BOB DYLAN
To live outside the law you must be honest.
BOB DYLAN
I'm against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly n...
BOB DYLAN
i've forgotten more than you'll ever know
BOB DYLAN
Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane...
BOB DYLAN
Crimson flames tied through my ears
Rollin' high and mighty traps
Pounced with fire on fla...
BOB DYLAN
Johnny was and is the North Star. You could guide your ship by him.
BOB DYLAN
You can't be happy by doing something groovy.
BOB DYLAN
What happened to Woody Guthrie, Bob?
BOB DYLAN
I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.
BOB DYLAN
Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
BOB DYLAN
I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.
BOB DYLAN
Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's...
BOB DYLAN
I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon.
BOB DYLAN
I don't believe you. You're a liar.
BOB DYLAN
Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.
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
Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
BOB DYLAN
I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.
BOB DYLAN
What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.
BOB DYLAN
You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows
BOB DYLAN
You've got a lot of nerve, To say you are my friend, When I was down, you just stood there grinning
BOB DYLAN
You're basically putting it out through a corporation regardless . . . How you get it out is really ...
BOB DYLAN
He who's not busy being born is busy dying
BOB DYLAN
There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.
BOB DYLAN
You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way.
BOB DYLAN
Steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and they make you king.
BOB DYLAN
Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
BOB DYLAN
I'm mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it's the only place where I'm happy.
BOB DYLAN
All I'd ever done was sing songs that were dead straight and expressed powerful new realities. I had...
BOB DYLAN
I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon.
BOB DYLAN
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind
BOB DYLAN
Ah - but I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now
BOB DYLAN
The city is one very long poem. A lazy rhythm looms in the dreamy air and the atmosphere pulsates wi...
BOB DYLAN
Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land, And don't criticize What you can't understand
BOB DYLAN
Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn).
BOB DYLAN
Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
BOB DYLAN
Somebody had to be Bob Dylan. I guess I was best equipped to do the job.
BOB DYLAN
Blonde on Blonde.
BOB DYLAN
You're gonna have to serve somebody.
BOB DYLAN
I'm not a playwright.
BOB DYLAN
All I can be is me- whoever that is.
BOB DYLAN
[Neil Young's lyrics from his 1988 hit] This Notes For You ... The Times They Are A Changing.
BOB DYLAN
I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so I'm on my way home.
BOB DYLAN
May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.
BOB DYLAN
I wanna say hello to all the ex-hippies tonight. I've never been a hippie myself but I'm an honorary...
BOB DYLAN
Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
BOB DYLAN
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed aroun...
BOB DYLAN
When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.
BOB DYLAN
I don't think I'm tangible to myself.
BOB DYLAN
There's beauty in the silver singing river, There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky, But none of th...
BOB DYLAN
I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all t...
BOB DYLAN
reality has too many heads
BOB DYLAN
Dostoevsky, too, had lived a dismal and hard life. The czar sent him to a prison camp in Siberia in ...
BOB DYLAN
If you're looking to get silly, you better go back to from where you came. because the cops don't ne...
BOB DYLAN
they say every man needs protection, they say every man must fall.
yet I swear I see my reflect...
BOB DYLAN
I had no time for romance. I turned away from the window, from the wintry sun, crossed through the r...
BOB DYLAN
But, like Shakespeare, I too am often occupied with the pursuit of my creative endeavors and dealing...
BOB DYLAN
Once upon a time You dressed so fine
BOB DYLAN
I never took much, I never asked for your crutch, Now don't ask for mine.
BOB DYLAN
In another life, I could have been you," she'd say.
"Yeah, but then I wouldn't have been the s...
BOB DYLAN
She's got everything she needs; she's an artist, she don't look back.
BOB DYLAN
The Duke [John Wayne] was a massive figure. He looked like a heavy piece of hauled lumber, and it di...
BOB DYLAN