Bob Dylan Quotes

You've got to lose your passion for dumbness.

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?

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

I forgot more than you'll ever know.

"Like a Rolling Stone" [of Bob Dylan] is a kiss-off song like none before or since.

He's hell bent for destruction, he's afraid and confused, and his brain has been mismanaged with great skill.

What looks large from a distance, close up ain’t never that big.

Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship. Ain't that just like my heart, babe. When you kissed my lips?

If you choose to live outside the law, you must obey the law more stringently than anyone.

You might be a rock and roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage.

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

Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.

Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

and if anybody asks me is it easy to forget I'll say it is easily done, you just pick anyone, and pretend that you never have met

When I think of mystery, I don't think about myself. I think of the universe, like why does the moon rise when the sun falls? Caterpillars turn into butterflies? I really haven't remained a recluse.

I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave

The inmates and prisoners, I found they were my kind, and it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind.

You have to know that you're the best whether anybody else tells you that or not. And that you'll be around, in one way or another, longer than anybody else. Somewhere inside of you, you have to believe that.

A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.

It's east to see without lookin' too far that not much is really sacred.

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

"Subterranean Homesick Blues" [of Bob Dylan] captures, in word-salad format, life in an encroaching police state.

How many roads must a developer walk down, before they accept the amenities package?

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

Witchcraft scum exploiting the dumb turning children into punks and slaves.

As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree, and the locusts sang off in the distance.

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.

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

Suddenly I found you and the spirit in me sings, Don't have to look no further, You're the soul of many things.

Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise. I mean, you're around awhile, you leave certain things to the young. Don't try to act like you're young. You could really hurt yourself.

I used to play hockey when I was growing up. Everyone sort of learns how to skate and play hockey at an early age.

Art is a never-ending dance of illusions.

Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.

Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall.

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.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

I want to use songs that everybody knows or thinks they know. I want to show them a different side of it and open up that world in a more unique way. You have to believe what the words are saying and the words are as important as the melody. Unless you believe the song and have lived it, there's little sense in performing it. I never wanted to be a singer that

Ain't it hard when you discover that, he wasn't really where it's at, after he took from you everything he could steal. How does it feel?

Since my feet are now fast and point away from the past, I'll bid farewell and be down the line.

Good and bad, I define these terms, quite clear, no doubt, somehow.

Gonna change my way of thinking, make my self a different set of rules. Gonna put my good foot forward and stop being influenced by fools.

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you.

It's not a house, it's a home.

Well, it's hard to stumble And land in some muddy lagoon When it's nine below zero And three o'clock in the afternoon.

Let the dead bury the dead, your time will come.

You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.

I didn't come out of a cereal box.

Art can lead you to God. I think that's the purpose of everything. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's leading you the other way. It's certainly not leading you nowhere.