Top 880 Quotes & Sayings by Bob Dylan - Page 4

What drives me to you, drives me insane.

the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on

If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show you the scars.

People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book.

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.

Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise. I mean, you're around awhile, you leave certain things to the young. Don't try to act like you're young. You could really hurt yourself.

The longer you live, the better you get.

All the people we used to know, they're an illusion to me now.

Don't follow leaders.

I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game.

Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I've never thought about that before! He said, When you're not following me, you're resisting me.

Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.

I never read Freud. I've never been attracted to anything he has said, and I think he's started a lot of nonsense with psychiatry and that business. I don't think psychiatry can help or has helped anybody. I think it's a big fraud (pun not intended) on the public.

Call me any name you like I will never deny it.

A cat's meow and cow's moo, I can recite them all.

Don't Ask Me Nothing About Nothing, I Just Might Tell You the Truth

It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain't got any friends.

I'm sittin' on my watch so I can be on time.

The times they are a-changing.

If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.

Life has its ups and downs, and time has to be your partner. Really, time is your soul mate.

Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.

You've got to lose your passion for dumbness.

... we're living in a Machiavellian world, whether we like it or we don't.

Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through.

The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have titles.

I make my stand and remain as I am, and bid farewell and not give a damn.

Time is an ocean, but it ends at the shore.

I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.

Never make it perfect.

For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die? Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do.

Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes.

The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through dust no matter how thick.

There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them In this age of fiberglass I'm searching for a gem The crystal ball up on the wall hasn't shown me nothing yet I've paid the price of solitude, but at last I'm out of debt

In songs, you have to tell people about something they didn't see and weren't there for, and you have to do it as if you were.

I fought with my twin, the enemy within.

What looks large from a distance, close up ain’t never that big.

I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word.

There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief.

If you like someone's work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to. Anyone who wants to be a songwriter should listen to as much folk music as they can, study the form and structure of stuff that has been around for 100 years.

They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.

The song was there before me, before I came along. I just sorta came down and just sorta took it down with a pencil, but it was there before I came around.

Every step of the way we walk the line Your days are numbered, so are mine Time is pilin' up, we struggle and we scrape We're all boxed in, nowhere to escape

In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.

Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored

DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about WILL COME TRUE. It's a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it's a fragile feeling, and you put it out there, then someone will kill it. It's best to keep that all inside.

Love is all there is, it makes the world go 'round Love and only love, it can't be denied No matter what you think about it You just won't be able to do without it Take a tip from one who's tried

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.

May you have a strong foundation when the winds of change shift...and may you be forever young.

There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They have got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.

Art can lead you to God. I think that's the purpose of everything. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's leading you the other way. It's certainly not leading you nowhere.

let me forget about today until tomorrow

Come senators, congressmen, Please heed the call, Don't stand in the doorway, Don't block up the hall, For he that gets hurt, Will be he who has stalled, The battle outside ragin', Will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls, For the times they are a-changin'...

Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land And don't criticize What you can't understand Your sons and your daughters Are beyond your command Your old road is Rapidly agin' Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand For the times they are a-changin'.

I just don't hear anyone else making the music I'm making in my head, so I'll have to do it myself.

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?

My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as long as it takes to write it...In writing songs I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie...It's not me, it's the songs. I'm just the postman, I deliver the songs...I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

They say everything can be replaced, Yet every distance is not near. So I remember every face Of every man who put me here. I see my light come shining From the west unto the east. Any day now, any day now, I shall be released.