Top 880 Quotes & Sayings by Bob Dylan - Page 3

Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it's available. When the cost comes down, look out!

I was born a long way from where I belong and I am on my way home.

The corporations have taken over. Even in the recording studio. Actually, the corporate companies have taken over American life most everywhere. Go coast to coast and you will see people wearing the same clothes, thinking the same thoughts, eating the same food. Everything is processed.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong, may you stay forever young.

You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way.

You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle.

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content.

Your mind is a your temple, keep it beautiful and free. Don't let an egg get laid in it by something you can't see.

Sometimes the silence can be like thunder.

Now, each of us has his own special gift And you know this was meant to be true. And if you don't underestimate me I won't underestimate you.

God, I'm glad I'm not me.

There's beauty in the silver singing river There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty That I remember in my true love's eyes

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

You have to work out where your place is. And who you are. But we're all spirit. That's all we are, we're just walking dressed up in a suit of skin, and we're going to leave that behind.

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

I'll remember you. When I've forgotten all the rest.You to me were true. You to me were the best.

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up?

People are crazy and times are strange ... I used to care but things have changed

People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later, you have to see through it or you don't survive.

every pleasure's got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don't complain

There's a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it.

It's not important what other people call you. If you yourself know you're a fake, that's tougher to live with.

Dealing with my own life takes priority over other people dealing with my life.

Music attracts the angels in the universe.

An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you'll sort of be alright.

Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.

The picture you have in your mind of what you're about will come true.

I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.

When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.

Some people are called to be a good sailor. Some people have a calling to be a good tiller of the land. Some people are called to be a good friend. You have to be the best at whatever you are called at. Whatever you do. You ought to be the best at it – highly skilled. It's about confidence, not arrogance. You have to know that you're the best whether anybody else tells you that or not. And that you'll be around, in one way or another, longer than anybody else. Somewhere inside of you, you have to believe that.

A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.

You can't be wise and in love at the same time.

Half of the people can be part right all of the time, Some of the people can be all right part of the time. I think Abraham Lincoln said that. 'I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours,' I said that.

The purpose of music is to elevate the spirit and inspire. Not to help push some product down your throat. It puts you in tune with your own existence. Sometimes you really don't know how you feel, but really good music can define how you feel... someone who's telling me where he's been that I haven't and what it's like there - somebody whose life I can feel.

All the money you made will never buy back your soul.

I've never been able to understand the seriousness of it all, the seriousness of pride. People talk, act, live as if they're never going to die. And what do they leave behind? Nothing. Nothing but a mask.

I never wanted to be a prophet or a saviour. Elvis maybe

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.

One should never be where one does not belong.

A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life, and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness. Happiness is a state of bliss. Just because you're satisfied one moment - saying yes, it's a good meal, makes me happy - well, that's not going to necessarily be true the next hour. Life has its ups and downs, and time has to be your partner. Time is your soul mate. Children are happy. But they haven't really experienced ups and downs yet. I'm not exactly sure what happiness even means. I don't know if I personally could define it.

Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.

I can picture the color of the song, or the shape of it, or who it is that I'm trying to appeal to, in the song, and what I'm trying to, almost, reinforce my feelings for. And I know that sounds sort of vague and abstract, but I've got a handle on it when I'm doing it.

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.

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 there's some kind of change.

Jesus, that ear. He should donate it to The Smithsonian. Brian Wilson, he made all his records with four tracks, but you couldn't make his records if you had a hundred tracks today.

You'll never be greater than yourself.

Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards

Let me ask you one question Is your money that good Will it buy you forgiveness Do you think that it could I think you will find When your death takes its toll All the money you made Will never buy back your soul

The Rolling Stones are truly the greatest rock and roll band in the world and always will be. The last too. Everything that came after them, metal, rap, punk, new wave, pop-rock, you name it... you can trace it all back to the Rolling Stones. They were the first and the last and no one's ever done it better.

I've always been the kind of person that doesn't like to trespass, but sometimes you just find yourself over the line.

No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.

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.

..When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail

There are things I could say. But I don't.

If you don't underestimate me, I won't underestimate you.