Top 880 Quotes & Sayings by Bob Dylan - Page 5

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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
The harmonica is the world's best-selling musical instrument. You're welcome.
In 1975,Bob Dylan was almost 10 years past his prime - and then he released the best album of his career, Blood on the Tracks. Written and recorded amid a painful divorce, Blood on the Tracks is proof that heartbreak makes great art - just as many of the albums that followed were the opposite.
Got no religion. Tried a bunch of different religions. The churches are divided. Can't make up their minds and neither can I. — © Bob Dylan
Got no religion. Tried a bunch of different religions. The churches are divided. Can't make up their minds and neither can I.
The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money.
They asked me for some collateral and I pulled down my pants.
Once I can focus in on something, I just play it in my mind until an idea comes from out of nowhere, and it's usually the key to the whole song. It's the idea that matters. It's like electricity was around long before Edison harnessed it.
Don't get up gentlemen. I'm only passing through!
People call you this or that. But I can't respond because then it seems like I'm defensive, you know, what does it matter, really?
Black is the Color and none is the number
It's very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself don't dig you.
The future for me is already a thing of the past - You were my first love and you will be my last
He swift don't win the race. It goes to the worthy, who can divide the word of truth.
Folk songs are evasive-the truth about life, and life is more or less a lie, but then again that's exactly the way we want it to be. We wouldn't be comfortable with it any other way. A folk song has over a thousand faces and you must meet them all if you want to play this stuff. A folk song might vary in meaning and it might not appear the same from one moment to the next. It depends on who's playing and who's listening.
The inmates and prisoners, I found they were my kind, and it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind. — © Bob Dylan
The inmates and prisoners, I found they were my kind, and it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind.
There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.
I had ambitions to set out and find, like an odyssey or going home somewhere, set out to find this home that I'd left a while back and couldn't remember exactly where it was, but I was on my way there. And encountering what I encountered on the way was how I envisioned it all. I didn't really have any ambition at all. I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so, I'm on my way home, you know?
You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.
I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin'. When she said, hey man, you crazy or somethin'?
I don't really have a retirement plan.
Everybody knows by now that there's a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the near future. So I'm encouraging anybody who's ever met me, heard me or even seen me, to get in on the action and scribble their own book. You never know, somebody might have a great book in them.
I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave
When you asked me how I was doing, was that some kind of joke
The worth of things can't be measured by what they cost but by what the cost you to get it, that if anything costs you your faith or your family, then the price is too high, and that there are some things that will never wear out.
Some things are too terrible to be true.
It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be.
I'll stand over your grave 'til I'm sure that you're dead.
He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich.
I feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet, putting her in a wheel-barrow and wheeling her down the street.
All right, I'll take a chance. I will fall in love with you. If i'm a fool you can have the night, you can have the morning too. Can you cook and sew. make flowers grow. Do you understand my pain? Are you willing to risk it all or is your love in vain?
Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think of myself as the one who carries the light bulb.
Well now what's the use in dreamin' You got better things to do Dreams never did work for me anyway Even when they did come true
I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail, poisoned in the bushes, blown out on the trail; hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn, "Come in," she said, "I'll give ya shelter from the storm."
Ring the bells for the blind and deaf.
I wouldn't even think of playing music if I was born in these times. I wouldn't even listen to the radio.
I’m in awe of McCartney. He’s about the only one that I am in awe of. He can do it all. And he’s never let up... He’s just so damn effortless.
Well, you always know who you are. I just don't know who I'm gonna become.
He's hell bent for destruction, he's afraid and confused, and his brain has been mismanaged with great skill.
It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it's like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don't. — © Bob Dylan
It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it's like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don't.
I'm not going to read any of these magazines. I mean, because they've just got too much to lose by printing the truth. You know that.
Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter.
You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live.
A lot of people from the press want to talk to me, but they never do.
Every day your memory grows dimmer - it doesn't haunt me like it did before.
What kind of alchemy could create a perfume that would make a reaction to a person lukewarm, indifferent and apathetic?If such a scent could be made I'd like some.
You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grinin
You're gonna have to serve somebody.
We're living in times where men commit crimes and crime don't have a face.
You'll find out when you reach the top, you're on the bottom.
God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free. — © Bob Dylan
God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free.
Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind, Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves, The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach, Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow. Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands, With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, Let me forget about today until tomorrow.
The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.
I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road.
Don't forget to support your public library.
For them that must obey authority/That they do not respect in any degree/Who despise their jobs, their destinies/Speak jealously of them that are free
Let the dead bury the dead, your time will come.
Sometimes I'm thinkin' I'm Too high to fall Other times I'm thinkin' I'm So low I don't know If I can come up at all
People think they know me from my songs. But my repertoire of songs is so wide-ranging that you'd have to be a madman to figure out the characteristics of the person who wrote all those songs.
There's enough songs for people to listen to, if they want to listen to songs. For every man, woman and child on earth, they could be sent, probaby, each of them, a hundred records, and never be repeated. There's enough songs. Unless someone's gonna come along with a pure heart and has something to say. That's a different story.
I'm used to writing songs and songs-I can fill em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book (Chronicles, Vol. 1), you gotta tell the truth, and it can't be misinterpreted.
After a while you earn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.
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