Bob Dylan quote: "If I was building any new kind of life to live, it really didn't seem that way. It's not as if I had turned in any old one to live it. If anything, I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to see all at once, like all the books in the library -everything laying around on all the tables. You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right."

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 don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusion...
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 ...
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I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
BOB DYLAN

There is nothing so stable as change.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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

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