Bob Dylan Quotes

You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore.

I used to think it's better if you just live and die and no one knows who you are.

I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

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

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.

"Tangled Up in Blue," shifts perspective several times during the song to tell a "tangled" version of [Bob] Dylan's marriage and dissolution.

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

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

Sold my guitar to the baker's son for a few crumbs and a place to hide.

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

God is in heaven, and we all want what's his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is.

The answer is blowin' in the wind.

I march in the parade of liberty But as long as I love you I’m not free How long must I suffer such abuse Won’t you let me see you smile one time before I turn you loose?

Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb/I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from/Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.

He swift don't win the race. It goes to the worthy, who can divide the word of truth.

The future for me is already a thing of the past - You were my first love and you will be my last

It wouldn't kill you to stay the night anyway.

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

In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand.

You been down to the bottom with a bad man, babe But you're back were you belong

The cards are no good that your are holding unless you're from another world.

You can't be wise and in love at the same time.

If you want to know how to please a woman, just talk to a neuroscience major from Columbia.

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

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns... that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn't have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale... that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorientate myself. p.71

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

Let me feel your love one more time before I abandon it.

And I'll know my song well before I start singing

I made a bargain with him, the chief in a world we can't see. (devil)

For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now. From the back pages

You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.

Last night I danced with a stranger, but she just reminded me you were the one.

We are singing today of the WIPE-OUT GANG - the WIPE-OUT GANG buys, owns & operates the Insanity Factory - if you do not know where the Insanity Factory is located, you should hereby take two steps to the right, paint your teeth & go to sleep.

Black is the Color and none is the number

If I lived my life by what others were thinkin', the heart inside me would've died.

It's mighty funny. The end of time has just begun.

You travel the world, you go see different things. I like to see Shakespeare plays, so I'll go - I mean, even if it's in a different language. I don't care, I just like Shakespeare, you know. I've seen Othello and Hamlet and Merchant of Venice over the years, and some versions are better than others. Way better. It's like hearing a bad version of a song. But then somewhere else, somebody has a great version.

You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live.

Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed, dignity never been photographed.

As long as you give my friend Jonah Lehrer a free pizza, I'll write a song about your restaurant.

If I had rubies, riches, and crowns, I'd buy the whole world and change things around.

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

People are crazy and times are strange ... I used to care but things have changed

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.

Fearing not that I'd become my enemy In the instant that I preach

In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.