An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you'll sort of be alright.
Bob DylanMy love ,she speaks like silence, without ideals or violence. She doesn't have to say she's faithful, yet she's true.
Bob DylanI like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
Bob DylanThey like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in, sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss banks.
Bob DylanFolk songs are evasive-the truth about life, and life is more or less a lie, but then again that's exactly the way we want it to be. We wouldn't be comfortable with it any other way. A folk song has over a thousand faces and you must meet them all if you want to play this stuff. A folk song might vary in meaning and it might not appear the same from one moment to the next. It depends on who's playing and who's listening.
Bob DylanMay you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.
Bob DylanIn the dime stores and bus stations People talk of situations Read books, repeat quotations Draw conclusions on the wall Some speak of the future My love she speaks softly She knows there’s no success like failure And that failure’s no success at all -Bob Dylan, “Love Minus Zero / No Limit” (1965)
Bob DylanLook, you know i don't wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn't make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious/.
Bob DylanIn the valley of the giants where the stars and stripes explode, the peaches they were sweet and the milk and honey flowed.
Bob DylanYou've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grinin
Bob DylanShakespeare, he's in the alley with his pointed shoes and his bells, speaking to some French girl who says she knows me well.
Bob DylanI'll always thank the Lord when my working day is through, I get my sweet reward to be alone with you.
Bob DylanJohnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking 'bout the government.
Bob DylanYou know, sometimes a person's reputation can be far more colossal than the influence of the person. I don't pay any attention to it anymore.
Bob DylanNow all the criminals in their suits and ties are free to drink martinis and watch the sunrise
Bob DylanCome senators, congressmen, Please heed the call, Don't stand in the doorway, Don't block up the hall, For he that gets hurt, Will be he who has stalled, The battle outside ragin', Will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls, For the times they are a-changin'...
Bob DylanSo I cut off my hair and I rode straight away, to the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong.
Bob DylanMama's in the factory, she ain't got no shoes. Daddy's in the alley, he's looking for food.
Bob DylanIn harmony with cosmic sea, true love needs no company. It can cure the soul, it can make it whole, if dogs run free.
Bob DylanThey self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.
Bob DylanFame it's like... When you look through a window, say you pass a little pub, or an inn. You look through the window and you see people talking and carrying on. You,can watch outside the window and see them all being very real with each other. But when you walk into the room, it's over. I don't pay any attention to it.
Bob Dylan