A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between
does what he wants to do.
– Bob Dylan
I’ve only written four songs in my whole life, but I’ve written those four songs a million times.
– Bob Dylan
You can’t be wise and in love at the same time.
– Bob Dylan
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
– Bob Dylan
I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either
hasn’t allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.
– Bob Dylan
When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it – don’t back down
and don’t give up – then you’re going to mystify a lot of folks.
– 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
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
Music can save people, but it can’t in the commercial way it’s being used. It’s just too much.
It’s pollution.
– Bob Dylan
I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.
– Bob Dylan
I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.
– Bob Dylan
It’s peculiar and unnerving in a way to see so many young people walking around with
cellphones and iPods in their ears and so wrapped up in media and video games. It robs them
of their self-identity. It’s a shame to see them so tuned out to real life. Of course they are
free to do that, as if that’s got anything to do with freedom. The cost of liberty is high, and
young people should understand that before they start spending their life with all those
gadgets.
– Bob Dylan
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So
I disappear a lot.
– Bob Dylan
You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
– Bob Dylan
Morality has nothing in common with politics.
– Bob Dylan
New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and
nobody would notice.
– Bob Dylan
Swallow your pride, you will not die, it’s not poison.
– Bob Dylan
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
– Bob Dylan
Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that’s exactly the way we want it to be.
– 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
If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you
will fail. Then again, there’s no success like failure.
– Bob Dylan
People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book.
– Bob Dylan
Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what
things don’t mean.
– Bob Dylan
I’m 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
The picture you have in your mind of what you’re about will come true.
– Bob Dylan
When I first heard Elvis Presley’s voice I just knew that I wasn’t going to work for anybody;
and nobody was going to be my boss. Hearing him for the first time was like busting out of
jail.
– Bob Dylan
May you have a strong foundation when the winds of changes shift… and may you be forever
young.
– Bob Dylan
Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.
– Bob Dylan
Money doesn’t talk, it swears.
– Bob Dylan
People can learn everything about me through my songs, if they know where to look.
– Bob Dylan
It’s a wicked life, but what the hell, the stars ain’t falling down.
– 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
Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain.
– Bob Dylan
The road out would be treacherous, and I didn’t know where it would lead but I followed it
anyway. It was a strange world ahead that would unfold, a thunderhead of a world with
jagged lightning edges. Many got it wrong and never did get it right. I went straight into it. It
was wide open. One thing for sure, not only was it not run by God, but it wasn’t run by the
devil either.
– Bob Dylan
At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.
– Bob Dylan
All I can be is me – whoever that is.
– Bob Dylan
Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
– Bob Dylan
Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.
– Bob Dylan
Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do.
– Bob Dylan