Top 880 Quotes & Sayings by Bob Dylan - Page 9

Feeling funny in my mind, Lord I believe I'm fixing to die Well, I don't mind dying But I hate to leave my children crying Well, I look over yonder to that burying ground Look over yonder to that burying ground Sure seems lonesome, Lord, when the sun goes down

your problem is that wanna better word for world

God bless you all with peace, tranquility and good will.

I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place.

You don't have to be afraid of looking into my face. We've done nothing to each other that time will not erase.

Done laid around, done stayed around This old town too long And it seems like I've got to travel on

Either I'm too sensitive, or else I'm gettin' soft

She's a hypnotist collector; you are a walking antique.

Wasn't making any great connection Wasn't falling for any intricate scheme Nothing that would pass inspection Just thinking of a series of dreams

Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak too soon For the wheel's still in spin And there's no tellin' who That it's namin' For the loser now Will be later to win For the times they are a-changin'.

Bob has never written a bad song. Bob Dylan is a genius.

I'm a good friend of Jonah Lehrer's. You should go on a date with him.

Every writer at the New Yorker is smarter than me.

Popular music had never had lyrical sophistication of this type [like Bob Dylan]; wit, to be sure, but "Darkness at the break of noon/Shadows even the silver spoon/The handmade blade, the child's balloon/Eclipses both the sun and moon/To understand you know too soon/ There is no sense in trying"? No.

Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things, but you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe.

It goes back to the destiny thing.I made a bargain with it, you know, a long time ago. And I'm holding up my end.

There's a lot of false prophets around and that's the trouble. People say they think they know what's right and other people get people to follow them because they have a certain type of charisma, and there's always people willing to take over. People want a leader. And there will be more and more of them.

I don't usually purge myself by writing anything about any type of quote, so-called, relationships.

Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road.

Bob Dylan wasn't a big star early on; it was the release of his Greatest Hits album in 1967, and the mainstream success of the stoner anthem "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" ("Everybody must get stoned!"), that really put him on the mainstream map.

And I’ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it Then I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin’ But I’ll know my song well before I start singin

May you stay Forever Young

I'm a liberal to a degree, I want everybody to be free. But if you think that I'll let Barry Goldwater move in next door.

If you ever tell anyone about Jonah's sexual dysfunction, I'll never play music again.

On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.

Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade.

If I had wings, no one would ask me: should I fly?

If I could have any job in the world, I'd start out by writing a blog on Wired.com.

Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon -but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx -the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

The first thing I know, I'm in a card game. Then I'm in a crap game.

City's just a jungle; more games to play Trapped in the heart of it, tryin' to get away I was raised in the country, I been workin' in the town I been in trouble ever since I set my suitcase down

I forgot more than you'll ever know.

The woman I love she got a prize fighter nose, cauliflower ears and a run in her hose.

We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it

I've been sitting down studying the Art of Love. I think it will fit me like a glove.

I was lingering out on the pavement. There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him . . . I felt done for, an empty burned-out wreck . . . Wherever I am, I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows.

Who am I helping, what am I breaking, what am I giving, what am I taking?

The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handle

The government's not going to create jobs. It doesn't have to. People have to create jobs.

Opportunities may come along for you to convert something - something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young. Back then I guess most of my influences could be thought of as eccentric. Mass media had no overwhelming reach so I was drawn to the traveling performers passing through.

Don't follow leaders, watch your parkin' meters.

So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away, to the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong.

I play these [folk acoustic] concerts and I ask myself, 'Would you come see me tonight?' - and I'd have to answer truthfully, 'No, I wouldn't come. I'd rather be doin' something else, really I would. That something else is rock... The words are pictures, and the rock's gonna help me flesh out the colors of the pictures. (1965)

It's always disappointing when people decide for one reason or another that they don't like your work anymore, but you can't try to please people, because then you're just going to be doing - you'll never live it down, y'know it'll always be dogging you around - you might be being a fake about the whole thing.

What politics I ever learned, I learned in the streets, because it was part of the environment.

Whatever colors you have in your mind, I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine.

There's a whole lot of people in trouble tonight From the disease of conceit Whole lot of people seeing double tonight From the disease of conceit Give ya delusions of grandeur And a evil eye Give you the idea that You're too good to die Then they bury you from your head to your feet From the disease of conceit

I lost my one true love. I started drinking.

The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape.

I was headed for the fantastic lights. No doubt about it. Could it be that I was being deceived? Not likely. I don't think I had enough imagination to be deceived; had no false hope, either. I'd come from a long ways off and had started from a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.

People think that singing and playing is easy. It's not. It's easy to strum along, but if you actually want to really play, where it's important, that's a hard thing and not too many people are good at it.

You know what they say about bein' nice to the right people on the way up Sooner or later you gonna meet them comin' down

A record ... is a statement, it's its own statement, its own entity, rather than being about something else. If I was a painter ... I don't paint the chair, I would paint feelings about the chair.

Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features.

I'll always thank the Lord when my working day is through, I get my sweet reward to be alone with you.

She takes your voice and leaves you howling at the moon.

After becoming famous once again - a 1976 song, "Hurricane," even marked a return to protest songwriting - [Bob] Dylan got addicted to drugs, found Jesus, left Jesus, and put out a lot of swill.

Ain't nothing too discreet about the disease of conceit.

Recording studios are filled with technology. They are set in their ways. And to update them means you'd have to change them back. That would be my idea of upgrading. And this will never happen. As far as I know, recording studios are booked all the time. So obviously people like all the improvements. The more technically advanced they are, the more in demand they become.