Top 880 Quotes & Sayings by Bob Dylan - Page 7

You breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live, when I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give. Dried the tears up from my dreams and pulled me from my hole, quenched my thirst and satisfied the burning in my soul.

For the loser now Will be later to win

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

How many roads must a man walk down Before your can call him a man? . . . The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Draft beer, not people.

Shadows are falling and I've been here all day/It's too hot to sleep, time is running away/Feel like my soul has turned into steel/I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal.

I'm determined to stand whether God will deliver me or not.

Freedom just around the corner for you, but with the truth so far off, what good will it do?

But I would not feel so all alone, everybody must get stoned.

Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)

I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.

Don't know which one is worse, doing your own thing or just being cool.

There's danger in this open world where men strive to be free, and to me the greatest danger was in society.

If God is on our side, he'll stop the next war.

When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.

Watch waterfalls of pity roar, you feel to moan but unlike before, you discover that you'd just be one more person crying.

All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun.

If not for you, winter wouldn't hold no spring, couldn't hear a robin sing. I just wouldn't have a clue, if not for you.

The warrior who's strength is not to fight.

Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth. You're an idiot babe, it's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.

Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot Fighting in the captain's tower While calypso singers laugh at them And fishermen hold flowers.

You’re a cow Give me some milk Or else go home

How many deaths will it take 'till we know that too many people have died?

I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's.

Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?

Aretha with no goals, eternally single & one step soft of heaven/ let it be understood that she owns this melody along with her emotional diplomats & her earth & her musical secrets

I don't need your organization, I've moved your mountains and I've marked you cards, but Eden is burning. You better get ready for elimination or else your hearts must have the courage of the changing of the guard.

There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.

May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung. May you stay forever young.

I hurt easy, I just don't show it. You can hurt someone and not even know it.

The only person you have to think about lying twice to is either yourself or to God. The press isn't either of them. And I just figured they're irrelevant.

I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred.

When somethin's not right it's wrong.

In harmony with cosmic sea, true love needs no company. It can cure the soul, it can make it whole, if dogs run free.

How many roads must a man walk down.. Before you can call him a Man.

Your old road is rapidly aging. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand, For the times they are a-changin'.

New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.

Everything from toy guns that spark To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark It's easy to see without looking too far That not much is really sacred.

There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better.

The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The new order is Rapidly fadin'. And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin'.

I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

Abe said, where do you want this killing done? God said, out on highway 61.

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

I ain't saying you treated me unkind you could've done better, but I don't mind. You just kinda wasted my precious time. But don't think twice, it's alright.

There used to be a time when the idea of heroes was important. People grew up sharing those myths and legends and ideals. Now they grow up sharing McDonalds and Disneyland.

I'm looking for a woman who's head is mixed up like mine.

How many roads must a man walk down, Before you call him a man? How many seas must a white dove sail, Before she sleeps in the sand? Yes, and how many times must the cannon balls fly, Before they're forever banned?

Everything that I'm saying You can say it just as good

The world of research has gone berserk. Too much paper work.

Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.

Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.

I'm good with songs I haven't written, if I like them. I'm glad I didn't write any of them. I already know how they go, so I have more freedom with them. I understand these songs. I've known them for 40 years, 50 years, maybe longer, and they make a lot of sense. So I'm not coming to them like a stranger.

Gates appeal to me because of the negative space they allow. They can be closed but at the same time they allow the seasons and breezes to enter and flow. They can shut you out or shut you in. And in some ways there is no difference.

One who sings with his tongue on fire, gargles in the rat race choir.

Even I don't know what I'm saying most of the time.

Walkin' through the leaves fallin' from the trees, Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees.

If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and good. Folk songs had taught me that.

I bargained for salvation and they gave me a lethal dose.

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