Top 880 Quotes & Sayings by Bob Dylan - Page 11

The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you've only got ten.

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!

I could stay with you forever and never realize the time.

People don't live or die, people just float.

When the deeds that you do don't add up to zero.

Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must.

Is your money that good, will it buy you forgiveness?

My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune.

They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.

She took off her wheel, took off her bell, took off her wig, said, how do I smell? I hot footed it barenaked out the window.

We never thought we could ever get old.

It's sundown on the union And what's made in the USA Sure was a good idea 'Til greed got in the way.

keep a clean nose, watch the plain-clothes.

You say you're looking for someone who'll pick you up each time you fall, to gather flowers constantly and to come each time you call, a lover your life and nothing more. But it ain't me, babe.

You're better than no one and no one is better than you.

My songs are personal music, they're not communal. I wouldn't want people singing along with me. It would sound funny. I'm not playing campfire meetings. I don't remember anyone singing along with Elvis, Carl Perkins or Little Richard.

I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children.

I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade, into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way.

Every day is the same thing out the door Feel further away then ever before Some things in life, it gets too late to learn Well, I'm lost somewhere I must have made a few bad turns

Too much of nothing can turn a man into a liar. It can cause one man to sleep on nails and another to eat fire.

If you can't lend a hand, then get out of the way.

and if anybody asks me is it easy to forget I'll say it is easily done, you just pick anyone, and pretend that you never have met

Let me drink from the waters where the mountain streams flood Let the smell of wildflowers flow free through my blood Let me sleep in your meadows with the green grassy leaves Let me walk down the highway with my brother in peace Let me die in my footsteps Before I go down under the ground.

The battle outside raging will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.

It ain't my cup of meat.

Don't wanna marry nobody, if they're already married.

Warlords of sorrow and queens of tomorrow will offer their heads for a prayer. You can't find no salvation, you have no expectations anytime, anyplace, anywhere.

One was Texas medicine, the other was just railroad gin, and like a fool I mixed them.

If I had rubies, riches, and crowns, I'd buy the whole world and change things around.

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

And it's a hard, It's a hard, It's a hard, It's a hard, It's a hard rain gonna fall.

Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth. None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.

The walls of pride are high and wide, can't see over to the other side.

The naked truth is still taboo.

Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it’s you who must keep it satisfied.

When you think that you lost everything you find out you can always lose a little more.

People tell me it's a sin, to know and feel too much within.

I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.

I've never gone for having a great voice, for cultivating one. I'm still not doing it now.

For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

You had no faith to lose and you know it.

Who Killed Davey Moore? Why and what's the reason for?

How many a year has passed and gone and many gamble has been lost and won, and many a road taken by a friend and each one I've never seen again.

How many roads must a developer walk down, before they accept the amenities package?

Oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies.

I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul.

I love Country Music but what happened to it?

I believe in you, even though I be outnumbered.

The cavalries charged and the Indians died, oh the country was young with God on its side.

Nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street.

Shakespeare's last play was called The Tempest. It wasn't called just plain Tempest. The name of my record is just plain Tempest. It's two different titles.

It's like going out to the desert and screaming and then having little kids throw their sandbox at you. I'm only 24.

I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken, I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children, And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.

There's no liquor in the land that can stop your brain from bleedin

Sing your praise of progress and the doom machine, the naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen.

I ain't looking to compete with you, beat, or cheat, or mistreat you, simplify you, classify you, deny, defy, or crucify you. All I really want to do is, baby, be friends with you.

Yes, and only if my own true love was waiting If I could hear his heart softly pounding Yes, and only if he was lying by me Would I lie in my bed once again.

Reality has always had too many heads.

The only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row.