Bob Dylan Quotes

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

~ Bob Dylan

The radio makes hideous sounds.

~ Bob Dylan

There is nothing so stable as change.

~ Bob Dylan

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

~ Bob Dylan

I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation.

~ Bob Dylan

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

~ Bob Dylan

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.

~ Bob Dylan

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

~ Bob Dylan

Chaos is a friend of mine.

~ Bob Dylan

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

~ Bob Dylan

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

~ Bob Dylan

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.

~ Bob Dylan

He not busy being born is busy dying.

~ Bob Dylan

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

~ Bob Dylan

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

~ Bob Dylan

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

~ Bob Dylan

If I wasn't ~ Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that ~ Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

~ Bob Dylan

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

~ Bob Dylan

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

~ Bob Dylan

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

~ Bob Dylan

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

~ Bob Dylan

A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.

~ Bob Dylan

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

~ Bob Dylan

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.

~ Bob Dylan

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

~ Bob Dylan

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

~ Bob Dylan

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

~ Bob Dylan

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

~ Bob Dylan

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

~ Bob Dylan

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

~ Bob Dylan

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

~ Bob Dylan

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

~ Bob Dylan

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

~ Bob Dylan

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

~ Bob Dylan

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

~ Bob Dylan

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

~ Bob Dylan

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

~ Bob Dylan

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 theres some kind of change.

~ Bob Dylan

I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.

~ Bob Dylan

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

~ Bob Dylan

I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.

~ Bob Dylan

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

~ Bob Dylan

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

~ Bob Dylan

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

~ Bob Dylan

I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon.

~ Bob Dylan

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

~ Bob Dylan

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

~ Bob Dylan

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

~ Bob Dylan

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

~ Bob Dylan

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

~ Bob Dylan

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

~ Bob Dylan