Top 880 Quotes & Sayings by Bob Dylan

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Bob Dylan.
Last updated on October 10, 2024.
Bob Dylan

Robert Dylan is an American singer-songwriter. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture during a career spanning more than 60 years. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" (1963) and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" (1964) became anthems for the civil rights and antiwar movements. His lyrics during this period incorporated a range of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences, defying pop music conventions and appealing to the burgeoning counterculture.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
Folk music is a bunch of fat people.
To live outside the law, you must be honest. — © Bob Dylan
To live outside the law, you must be honest.
Chaos is a friend of mine.
A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.
I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past. — © Bob Dylan
Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.
I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.
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.
I kinda live where I find myself.
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.
When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?
The radio makes hideous sounds.
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.
A song is anything that can walk by itself.
I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy.
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.
He not busy being born is busy dying.
I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself.
You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.
In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.
I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
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.
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.
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.
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
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 define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
You can't be happy by doing something groovy.
I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.
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.
I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.
There is nothing so stable as change.
All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
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.
I'm inconsistent, even to myself.
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.
Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges. — © Bob Dylan
Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.
Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
Money doesn't talk, it swears.
I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.
Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.
A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.
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